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Item Details
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IMAGES AND UNDERSTANDING
THOUGHTS ABOUT IMAGES: IDEAS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING |
| By: |
Horace Barlow (Editor), Colin Blakemore (Editor), Miranda Weston-Smith (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521369444 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521369442 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 1990 |
| Pages: |
414 |
| Description: |
Based on a Rank Prize Funds International Symposium held in 1986, this illustrated book explores how humans see and use images in science and art, with contributors from psychology, computer science, choreography, philosophy and art. |
| Synopsis: |
How do you paint a picture of infinity? How do you dance about death? How do you draw a diagram explaining entropy? Images and Understanding explores the human problem of moving facts and ideas from one mind to another - the problems of how we see and communicate using images expressed in pictures, diagrams, words, music and dance. For artists as well as scientists discussion of this topic is timely; electronic and computing technology is expanding the means of generating and communicating images, while physiology and psychology are revealing the neural mechanisms of coding, perceiving and understanding them. The book is divided into six sections, each with an explanatory introduction followed by comprehensively illustrated contributions from internationally distinguished figures from fields as diverse as art history, choreography, psychology, computer science, and philosophy. Images and Understanding is unique in viewing the problems of imagery through the eyes of both science and art; it gives new insight into images and new ideas about understanding. |
| Illustrations: |
half-tones, line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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