September 1974
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8 Reads
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49 Citations
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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September 1974
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8 Reads
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49 Citations
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
... As Arnheim [43,44] stated 'perhaps perception consists in the application, to the stimulus material, of "perceptual categories", such as roundness, redness, smallness, symmetry, verticality, etc. which are evoked by the structure of the given configuration' [44, p. 32]. Thus, he provided a translation of Fechner's processing from below, while further arguing 'if perceiving consists in the creation of patterns of perceptual categories, adequate to the stimulus configuration, and if the artist's task includes the representation of such patterns, then he has actually to invent a pictorial form that more often than not cannot simply be "read off" from the percept' [44, p. 35]. ...
September 1974
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism