Cognitive turn in Art history

[...]Cognitive philosopher Alva Noë’s study, Action in Perception, analyzes visual perception from the perspective of neuroscience. As Noë observes, far from being precisely focused and expansive, our perceptual field consists of a small, central area of sharp focus called the fovea; the rest of the field becomes progressively blurry towards the edges. The silver (now oxidized to black) and gold frames of the miniatures in this manuscript suggest just such a b...
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