Visual art and visual perception

Jan J. Koenderink

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Abstract

Visual art and visual perception
‘Visual art’ has become a minor cul-de-sac orthogonal to THE ART of the museum directors and billionaire collectors. THE ART is conceptual, instead
of visual. Among its cherished items are the tins of artist’s shit (Piero Manzoni, 1961, Merda d’Artista) “worth their weight in gold”. I perceive a metabletic
(van den Berg, 1956) parallel to philosophy transforming itself into
speculative logic games, and psychology going cognitive by freeing itself from
phenomenology. Here I want to consider visual art in its relation to visual perception.
Art is about awareness, analogous to the way poetry is about reflective thought.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-4
Number of pages4
JournalPerception
Volume44
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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