'Not an Illustration But the Equivalent': A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism

by Claude Cernuschi

This work is an attempt to bring the latest findings of cognitive psychology to bear on the interpretation of Abstract Expressionism. The heuristic models developed by contemporary cognitive scientists to describe human perception and cognition_particularly the claim that our physical experience of the world both creates and is filtered by image schemata and that even our interpretive and intellectual constructs originate in metaphorical projections...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611471419
• ISBN13: 9781611471410
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 172 Pages