Gestalt in Motion
Wholeness, Systems and Perception in Post-War British Art
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21158613 |
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| Autores | Kate Sloan (0000-0003-4619-7075, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 17 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 200-224 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2016.1211487 |
| OpenAlex | W2495487440 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 7 |
Second World War developments in the science of visual perception prompted a series of publications in the post-war years that influenced the visual arts in Britain, including J.J. Gibson’s Perception of the Visual World. This article looks at the evolution of these new theories of visual perception and how they connect with the application of Gestalt principles to visual arts practice. Looking at the post-war trends towards collage, constructivism and assemblage, I argue that these material approaches were influenced by the contemporaneous and cross-disciplinary debates around Gestalt in the systems age. The crossovers between biology and technology are discussed and placed in the context of the wartime genesis of these debates on organized form
Aesthetics · Art · Gestalt psychology · International relations · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Visual perception · World War II · Art Education and Development · Art, Technology, and Culture · History · Law · Psychology
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