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The “Visual Shock” of Francis Bacon: an essay in neuroesthetics

In this paper we discuss the work of Francis Bacon in the context of his declared aim of giving a “visual shock.”We explore what this means in terms of brain activity and what insights into the brain's visual perceptive system his work gives. We do so especially with reference to the representa...

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Autores principales: Zeki, Semir, Ishizu, Tomohiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339812
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00850