Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics
Title:
Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics
ISBN:
9783642841064
Edition:
1st ed. 1990.
Publication Information New:
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1990.
Physical Description:
VIII, 143 p. 9 illus. online resource.
Series:
Recent Research in Psychology
Contents:
1. Introduction: The ecological optics of information surfaces -- I: Pictures, plans, drawings, and displays - surrogate information and means for communication -- 2. Picture perception as "indirect" perception -- 3. The communicative potential of pictures: eleven theses -- 4. On two distinct and quintessential kinds of pictorial representation -- 5. Meaning, presence and absence in pictures -- 6. Decomposing optical stimulus information by pictures -- 7. Communicating design ideas: a pictorial essay -- 8. Functional versus dysfunctional aspects of information surfaces -- II: Ecological aesthetics -- 9. The semiotics and aesthetics of surfaces and surface layouts -- 10. Ecological perception and aesthetics: pictures are affordance-free -- 11. The "aesthetic experience" as perceiving the general affordance of explorability -- 12. Epilogue: Availability and affordances of information from information surfaces -- Author index -- List of contributors.
Abstract:
This book tries to apply James J. Gibson's ecological approach to picture perception to questions of visual communication and aesthetics; it provides examples from architecture, industrial design and the arts, to testify the feasibility of this application. Additional theoretical analyses, partly based on cross-cultural and clinical research, help supplement Gibson's basic conjecture, that picture perception is essentially based on invariants of optical structure, rather than interpretation.
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Language:
English