Laws of seeing / Wolfgang Metzger ; translated by Lothar Spillmann [and others].
- Author
- Metzger, Wolfgang, 1899-1979
- Uniform Title
- Gesetze des Sehens. English
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
- Copyright Date
- ©2006
- Physical Description
- xxv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Language Note
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- Introduction to the English translation -- Preface -- Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory -- 1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment -- 2 Visible and invisible forms -- 3 Of groups and borders -- 4 Developmental stages in shape formation -- 5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage -- 6 Brightness and spatial form -- 7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings -- 8 Form and substance of seen things- the Prägnanz tendency -- Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness -- 10 Yet another important camouflage principle -- 11 The wandering moon -- 12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0262134675 (alk. paper)
9780262134675 (alk. paper)
9780262134675 - Note
- Translated from the German.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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