Ribbon of darkness : inferencing from the shadowy arts and sciences /: inferencing from the shadowy arts and sciences. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Essays.
• Further Information: Note: Barbara Maria Stafford.
• Authors: Stafford, Barbara Maria, 1941-
• Contents: Preface: the bottom of the garden -- Introduction: on being struck: hitting the eye/arousing the mind -- Inscrutability. "Black and glittering": the inscrutable sublime ; Lying side by side: fitting color to eros ; The ultimate conjuncture: what shadows the brain-mind merger? ; Reconceiving the Warburg Library as a working museum of the mind -- Ineffability. From communicable matter to incommunicable "stuff": extreme combinatorics and the return of ineffability ; Impossible to name: performing the ineffable ; "Totally visual?": op art's neural iconography and the engineered picture ; Dark wonder: belowness, or the ineffable underground ; Still deeper: the non-conscious sublime or the art and science of submergence -- Intuitability. Strange shadows/marred screens ; Thought gems: inferencing from the impersonal crystalline ; The jewel game: gems, fascination, and the neuroscience of visual attention ; From observant eye to non-attentive "I": the camera as cognitive device ; Seizing attention: devices and desires.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 700.1/05; Art -- Aesthetics; Sublime, The, in art; Art and science; Art and technology; Art -- Aesthetics; Art and science; Art and technology; Sublime, The, in art; ART / General; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226630656
• Related ISBNs: 022663065X; 9780226630489; 022663048X; 9780226630519; 022663051X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (viewed June 18, 2019)
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.