Thoughts on shape

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Affiliations, addresses ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Part I. Perception of visual spaces
6. Introduction to visual spaces 3
7. Coplanar reflectance change and the ontology of surface perception 35
8. Evidence suggestive of separate visual dynamics in perception and in memory 71
9. Illusory space and paradoxical transparency in stereokinetic objects 99
10. The neural space of visual shape perception 105
11. Boundary Gestalt limits flow Gestalt 115
12. Part II. Depiction of visual spaces
13. Pictorial space, a modern reappraisal of Adolf Hildebrand 135
14. Gestalts of thought 155
15. Visual quality 165
16. Rudolf Arnheim’s graphic equivalents in children’s drawings and drawings and paintings by Paul Klee 195
17. Visual perception and theories of painting 221
18. Part III. Bridging perception and depiction of visual spaces
19. Dynamics of picture viewing and picture description 235
20. Order and complexity in naturalistic landscapes 257
21. Thoughts on shape 303
22. Tracing axes of growth 351
23. John Willats† 367
24. Name index 373
25. Subject index 377