Bibliography of Cognitive Science and the Visual Arts

Alperson, Phillip; The Philosophy of the Visual Arts , New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Anderson, Phillip M.; "In Defense of the Aesthetic: Technical Rationality and Cultural Censorship" . In Preserving Intellectual Freedom: Fighting Censorship in Our Schools, pp. 3-16. Edited by Jean E. Brown. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English

Arnheim, Rudolf; Visual Thinking , London: Faber and Faber, 1969.

Arnheim, Rudolf; Art and Visual Perception: a psychology of the creative eye , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Arnheim, Rudolf; Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye , London: Faber, 1956.

Benton, M.G.; "The Self-Conscious Spectator " , British Journal of Aesthetics 35 (October, 1995), pp. 361-373.

Berlyne (ed), D.E.; Studies in the New Experimental Aesthetics: Steps Toward an Objective Psychology of Aesthetic Appreciation , London: Wiley, 1974.

Blich, Baruch; "pictorial realism" , Empirical studies of the arts vol. 9, no. 2 (1991), pp. 175-189.

Blich, Baruch; "Pictorial representation and its cognitive status" , visual arts research vol. 15, no. 1 (issue 29) (spring 1989), pp. 68-75.

Brittain, David; "Eye contact. (interview with the cognitive scientist R. Sheldrake on visual perception) " , Creative Camera 341 p. 18.

Brittain, David; "Eye Contact (An Interview with the Cognitive Scientist R. Sheldrake on Visual Perception " , Creative Camera 341 p. 18f..

Brothwell, Don Reginald (ed); Beyond Aesthetics: Investigations into the Nature of Visual Art , London: Thames & Hudson, 1976.

Budd, Malcolm; "On Looking at a Picture " . In Psychoanalysis, Mind and Art, Edited by Jim Hopkins. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992.

Budd, Malcolm; "How Pictures Look" . In Virtue and Taste, Edited by Dudley Knowles. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993.

Cernuschi, Claude; Not an Illustration but the Equivalent: A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism , Madison, Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997 .

Churchland, Paul ; The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul , Cambridge: MIT Press

Chapter 10 is on art.

Cohen, Jonathan; "Conventionalism and Non-Naive Resemblance (Comments on Jesse Prinz's "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Pictorial Representation")" , The University of Chicago Philosophy Project (on-line)

"In what follows, I shall first consider Prinz's negative case against the conventionalist and then provide some objections against his positive account."

Currie, Gregory; "Imagination and Simulation: Aesthetics Meets Cognitive Science" . In Mental Simulation, p. n/a. Edited by Martin Davies and Tony Stone. Blackwell

Dennett, Daniel; Consciousness Explained , Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1991.

Dissanayake, Ellen; Homo Aestheticus

Dissanayake, Ellen; What is Art For?

Both [of Dissanayake's] books employ evolutionary theory and make an interesting case. She is also working on a book about mothers, children, and music. There is no Freudianism here either, Darwinism is the guide. A brief account of her views can be found in an essay entitled "Chimera, Spandrel, or Adaption: Conceptualizing Art in Human Evolution," HUMAN NATURE 6, No. 2 pp. 99-117.

Dundas, Judith; " Style and the Mind's Eye " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (Spring, 1979), pp. 325-334.

Feldman, Edmund B.; "Visual Literacy " , Journal of Aesthetic Education 10 (1976), pp. 195-200.

Finke, Ronald; Thomas B. Ward, and Steven M. Smith; Creative Cognition, Theory, Research, and Applications , Cambridge: MIT Press

Frith, Chris.; Law, John; " Cognitive and physiological processes underlying drawing skills. " , Leonardo 28 no3 pp. 203-5.

Geller, Jeffery; "Painting, Parapraxes, and Unconscious Intentions " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (Summer, 1993), pp. 377-387.

Gombrich, E. H.; Art and Illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation (5th ed.) , London: Phaidon, 1977, c1959.

Gombrich, E.H.; "Additional Thoughts on Perspective " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (Winter, 1993), p. 69f..

Goodman, Nelson; Of Mind and Other Matters , Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Goodman, Nelson; Languages of Art: an approach to a theory of symbols , Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.

Hardin, C.L.; Color for Philosophers, Unweaving the Rainbow , Indianapolis: Hackett

Hardin, C.L.; Color for Philosophers, Unweaving the Rainbow , Indianapolis: Hackett

Harrison, Andrew (ed.); Philosophy and the Visual Arts: Seeing and Abstracting , Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1987.

Heffernan, James A.W.; "RESEMBLANCE, SIGNIFICATION, AND METAPHOR IN THE VISUAL ARTS " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44 (Winter, 1985), pp. 167-180.

Hester, Marcus B.; Sensibility and Criticism: A Study of the Interrelation of Verbal Acts and Visual Acts , Lanham University Press of America, 1983.

Jolicoeur, P., M. Gluck, and S. Kossylyn; "Pictures and Names: Making the Connection " , Cognitive Psychology 16 (1984), pp. 243-275.

Kemal, Salim, and Ivan Gaskell (eds.); The Language of Art History , New York: Cambridge UP, 1991.

Korsmeyer, Carolyn; "Instruments of the Eye: Shortcuts to Perspectives " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (Spring, 1989), pp. 139-146.

Leavitt, Ruth; Cognition and Fine Art: The Creative Process: An Analysis of Artistic Methodologies for Archaeologists

Lopes, Dominic; Understanding Pictures , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

A philosophical account of depiction drawing in part on recent work in psychology

Lopes, Dominic; "Art Media and the Sensory Modalities: The Case of Tactile Pictures" , Philosophical Quarterly (Forthcoming) p. (Forthcoming).

The implications for aesthetics of recent psychological work of tactile pictures used by blind people. Won the 1997 Philosophical Quarterly essay prize on the theme Art and Mind

Maynard, Patrick; "Perspective's Places " , The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (Winter, 1996), pp. 23-40.

Maynard, Patrick L.; "Seeing Double " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (Spring, 1994), pp. 155-167.

Nitta, Hiroe; "On Artistic Process: Eye, Hand, Language " , Aesthetics 3 (March, 1988), pp. 1-21.

Phillips, Antonia; " Drawing From Life " . In Psychoanalysis, Mind and Art, Edited by Jim Hopkins. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992.

Podro, M.; "Complexity in the Visual Arts " , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 63 (1963), pp. 83-102.

Prinz, Jesse; "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Pictorial Representation " , The University of Chicago Philosophy Project (on-line)

Jesse Prinz argues in his paper, "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Pictorial Representation" that conventionalist accounts of pictorial representation are unable to explain recent anthropological data. Therefore, he recommends the adoption of a non-naive resemblance theory as a compromise between conventional and resemblance explanations.

Rollins, Mark; Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science , New Haven: Yale University Press, c1989.

Author is co-editor of Begetting Images: Studies in the Art and Science of Symbol Production and is currently completing a book entitled Minding the Brain.

Roskill, Mark; "Explanation and Value: What Makes the Visual Arts So Different, So Appealing? " . In Explanation and Value in the Arts, Edited by Salim Kemal. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Shepard, Roger; Mind Sights , W.H. Freeman and Co., 1990.

A collection of the author's own playful optical illusion drawings, some autobiographical information, and his provocative writings on visual perception.

Solso, Robert; Cognition and the Visual Arts , Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 1994.

Soufi, Basil.; and Edmonds, Ernest; "The cognitive basis of emergence: implications for design support " , Design Studies 17 pp. 451-63.

Thompson, E.; A. Palacios, and F.J. Varela; " Ways of coloring: Comparative color vision as a case study for cognitive science " , The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 pp. 1-25.

Turner, Norman; " Some Questions about E H Gombrich on Perspective " , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (Spring, 1992), pp. 139-150.

van Campen, Crétien; "Early Abstract Art and Experimental Gestalt Psychology" , Leonardo 30(2) pp. 133-136.

Wallace, Michele; "Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture " . In Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective, Edited by Hilde Hein. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

Walton, Kendall L.; "Seeing-In and Seeing Fictionally " . In Psychanalysis, Mind and Art, Edited by Jim Hopkins. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992.

Woodfield, Richard; "Gombrich, Formalism and the Description of Works of Art " , The British Journal of Aesthetics 34 (April, 1994), pp. 134-145.

Young, James O.; "Evaluation and the cognitive function of art " , The Journal of Aesthetic Education 29 pp. 65-78.

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