Embedded symmetries : Natural and cultural /
The ten participants in this volume explore nonrepresentational\patterns from perceptual and cultural perspectives. Archaeologists,\anthropologists, art historians, and psychologists lend their views\on how patterns and symmetry are expressed and resonate in a variety\of human relationships and inst...
| Format: | Libro |
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| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque
University of New Mexico
2004
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| Series: | Amerind Foundation New World studies series
6 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Embedded symmetries / Dorothy K. Washburn
- Symmetries in development : the eye is quicker than the hand / Diane Humphrey
- The perception of band patterns : going beyond geometry / Michael Kubovy and Lars Strother
- Evolutionary developments in the cognition of symmetry / Thomas Wynn
- The genesis of realistic and patterned representations / Dorothy K. Washburn
- Symmetry on Paracas Necrópolis textiles / Anne Paul
- Jazz : an Andean sense of symmetry / Ed Franquemont
- The ghost in the machine : symmetry and representation in ancient Antillean art / Peter G. Roe
- Symmetry for itself, for culture, and for practice / F. Allan Hanson
- Symmetry and semiotics : the case of Fijian barkcloth figuration / Rod Ewins.