6 PART I Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual
Information Chapter 1 Short Summary of the Main Ideas 9 Chapter 2 What
Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer's
Disease 10 Chapter 3 What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual
Memories Look Like? 14 Chapter 4 The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology
and Its Limitations 19 Chapter 5 My Question: How Do Forms Convey
Content; Are There Visual Categories of Expression? 21 Chapter 6 The
Rosette 29 Chapter 7 Contraction and Expansion 32 Chapter 8 The
Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory -
Identification Memory 49 Chapter 9 The "Orbits" and Their Application 62
Chapter 10 The Start of Ornamentation All over the World and at All
Times 65 Chapter 11 Actual Enlargement and Reduction 69 Chapter 12
Rotated Surfaces 74 PART II l3 Form and Movement 81 Chapter Chapter 14
The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art 89 Chapter 15 The
Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece 92
Chapter 16 Movement Schemata 96 Chapter 17 And Once Again the Visual
Memory 101 102 Chapter 18 So-called Naturalism 110 Summing-up 114
Bibliography 116 Index ll8 Figures 5 This book is essentially about the
question of For more than 20 years I maintained a constant what forms
say to us, what information they con- dialogue with Rudolf Arnheim.