E-raamat: Fine Art and Perceptual Neuroscience: Field of Vision and the Painted Grid [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

"Over the past decade, the integration of psychology and fine art has sparked growing academic interest among researchers of these disciplines. The author, both a psychologist and artist, offers up a unique merger and perspective of these fields. Throughthe production of fine art, which is directly informed by neuroscientific and optical processes, this volume aims to fill a gap in the literature and understanding of the creation and perception of the grid image created as a work of art. The grid image is employed (for reasons discussed in the text) to illustrate more general processes associated with the integration of vision, visual distortion, and painting.Existing at the intersection of perceptual neuroscience, psychology, fine art and art history, this volume concerns the act of painting and the process of looking. More specifically, the book examines vision and the effects of visual impairment and how these can be interpreted through painting within a theoretical framework of visual neuroscience. "--

Hackett, a psychologist and artist, examines the process of human perception, its connection to the practice of painting, and the traditional visual trope known as "the grid." He considers how his condition of double vision distorts his view of the world and how it can influence the creation of painted grid-based configurations. He starts with a review of contemporary artwork and scientific and art historical literature that reference the grid, then outlines a mapping sequence to define the components of the metaphorical and figurative depictions of the grid found in the art traditions of the modernist and post-modernist eras, using cognitive neuroscience and Gestalt psychology to understand human visual perception and his double vision and guide his painting during the research. He discusses the role of cartography in his research, its methodology, the stages of his studio practice, how his work illustrates his double vision within the grid, and the use of his approach for understanding normal and distorted vision. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Over the past decade, the integration of psychology and fine art has sparked growing academic interest among researchers of these disciplines. The author, both a psychologist and artist, offers up a unique merger and perspective of these fields. Through the production of fine art, which is directly informed by neuroscientific and optical processes, this volume aims to fill a gap in the literature and understanding of the creation and perception of the grid image created as a work of art. The grid image is employed (for reasons discussed in the text) to illustrate more general processes associated with the integration of vision, visual distortion, and painting.

Existing at the intersection of perceptual neuroscience, psychology, fine art and art history, this volume concerns the act of painting and the process of looking. More specifically, the book examines vision and the effects of visual impairment and how these can be interpreted through painting within a theoretical framework of visual neuroscience.