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(More customer reviews)This book is a summary of articles about how we, the humans, see the art through the cognition, or how our brains perceive art. There's no need to be a cognition master to read this book, and all chapters can be read separately. An easy to read and quite interesting book.
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An experienced and prolific writer, Robert Solso has a gift forsimplifying sometimes difficult concepts in science. Here he brings a refreshing newapproach to the psychology of art, synthesizing research from a vast collection ofdata on how humans perceive, process, and store information and applying it to theviewing and interpretation of art. In this first systematic study of the connectionbetween the new cognitive psychology and its importance to art, Solso reflects onthe long relationship between humankind and art, observing that "mind and art areone." A major theme of this book, in fact, is that the clearest view of the mindcomes when we create or experience art, a reverse of the usual view of art andcognition. The illustrations cover a wide range of examples, including African,Asian, and prehistoric art, but focusing primarily on Western art. The treatment ofcognition applies a blend of the standard information-processing model, brainfunction, and neural networks.Cognitive Psychology series
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