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Inner Vision Is The First Attempt To Relate Art To The Way In Which The Visual Brain Functions. Using A Range Of Examples From Artists Including Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Magritte, Malevich, And Picasso, Semir Zeki Takes The Reader On An Aesthetic Tour Of The Brain. He Describes In Compelling Detail How Different Areas Of The Brain Respond To Elements Of The Visual Arts Such As Colour, Form, Line, And Motion, And Argues That Our Experience Of Art Relates Strongly To How The Brain Works.--jacket. Part I: A Function Of The Brain And Of Art -- 1. The Brain's Quest For Essentials -- 2. Art's Quest For Essentials -- 3. The Myth Of The Seeing Eye -- 4. A Neurobiological Appraisal Of Vermeer And Michaelangelo -- 5. The Neurology Of The Platonic Ideal -- 6. The Cubist Search For Essentials -- 7. The Modularity Of Vision -- 8. Seeing And Understanding -- 9. The Modularity Of Visual Aesthetics -- 10. The Pathology Of The Platonic Ideal And The Hegelian Concept -- Part Ii: The Art Of The Receptive Field -- 11. The Receptive Field -- 12. Mondrian, Malevich, And The Neurophysiology Of Oriented Lines -- 13. Mondrian, Ben Nichoson, Malevich, And The Neurophysiology Of Squares And Rectang

Author

Zeki, Semir

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198505198

Subjects

Medical, Art, Psychology

Rating

4.5 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14