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The Structure of Paintings

Michael Leyton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VI, 207 Seiten

2006
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
978-3-99043-091-0 (ISBN)

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Michael Leyton has developed new foundations for geometry in which shape is equivalent to memory storage. A principal argument of these foundations is that artworks are maximal memory stores. The theory of geometry is developed from Leyton's fundamental laws of memory storage, and this book shows that these laws determine the structure of paintings. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that the emotion expressed by a painting is actually the memory extracted by the laws. Therefore, the laws of memory storage allow the systematic and rigorous mapping not only of the compositional structure of a painting, but also of its emotional expression. The argument is supported by detailed analyses of paintings by Picasso, Raphael, Cezanne, Gauguin, Modigliani, Ingres, De Kooning, Memling, Balthus and Holbein.

Michael Leyton's mathematical work on shape has been used by scientists in over 40 disciplines from chemical engineering to meteorology. His scientific contributions have received major prizes, such as a presidential award and a medal for scientific achievement. His new foundations to geometry are elaborated in his books in Springer-Verlag and MIT Press. Besides his scientific and mathematical work, he is also a highly exhibited painter and sculptor, and his architecture designs have been published by Birkhauser-Architectural. Also he is the composer of published string quartets. He is president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics, and is on the faculty of the Psychology Department and the DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers.

Shape as Memory Storage.
- Expressiveness of Line.
- The Evolution Laws.
- Smoothness-Breaking.
- Credits.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.9.2006
Zusatzinfo	numerous illus., partly in color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	575 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
Schlagworte	artistic composition • Bifurcation • Curvature • Emotional expression • memory storage • Shape • smothness-breaking
ISBN-10	3-99043-091-2 / 3990430912
ISBN-13	978-3-99043-091-0 / 9783990430910
Zustand	Neuware