The author, Jürgen Weber, brings together the results of various disciplines and his own research and experience as a sculptor and painter and stitches together an exciting new theory of perception of form. In doing so, Weber - who also has a scientific background - explores the fascinating question of what additional information the thing that is seen conveys. How do we tell the difference between a cheerful and a gloomy face? Why do we see that a bud will open shortly? Why do we find some phenomena to be dangerous and others to be desirable? These question have not yet been investigated in a systematic and scientific way, although they are of vital importance to our behaviour. No doubt, this book represents a unique and timely contribution to the many disciplines concerned with the wonders of perception.

InhaltsangabeList of Contents.- I Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual Information.- 1 Short Summary of the Main Ideas.- 2 What Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer's Disease.- 3 What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like?.- 4 The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology and Its Limitations.- 5 My Question: How Do Forms Convey Content; Are There Visual Categories of Expression?.- 6 The Rosette.- 7 Contraction and Expansion.- 8 The Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory - Identification Memory.- 9 The "Orbits" and Their Application.- 10 The Start of Ornamentation All over the World and at All Times.- 11 Actual Enlargement and Reduction.- 12 Rotated Surfaces.- II.- 13 Form and Movement.- 14 The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art.- 15 The Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece.- 16 Movement Schemata.- 17 And Once Again the Visual Memory.- 18 So-called Naturalism.- Summing-up.- Summing-up.- Figures.