Perception
By medium: seeing - tasting - hearing - feeling - smelling
Related: attention - experience - sense - sensation - synaesthesia
Definition
Perception is the process of acquiring, organizing and interpreting sensory information. It is a major field of study in psychology and cognitive science. Methods of studying perception range from essentially biological or physiological approaches, through psychological approaches to the often abstract 'thought-experiments' of mental philosophy. --http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PerceptionThe Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (1954) - Aldous Huxley
Sometimes a writer has to revisit the classics, and here we find that "gonzo journalism"--gutsy first-person accounts wherein the author is part of the story--didn't originate with Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe. Aldous Huxley took some mescaline and wrote about it some 10 or 12 years earlier than those others. The book he came up with is part bemused essay and part mystical treatise--"suchness" is everywhere to be found while under the influence. This is a good example of essay writing, journal keeping, and the value of controversy--always--in one's work. - amazon.com editorial review
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954) - Rudolf Arnheim
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954) - Rudolf Arnheim [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
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Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.
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