I think the Inductive readership will be interested in the following book.
I send the back-cover information, which is tremendously enlightening
in itself.
THE STRUCTURE OF PAINTINGS
by Michael Leyton
Springer-Verlag
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. At the basis of
this geometry are Leyton's fundamental laws of memory storage,
and these laws are shown to determine the structure of artworks.
That is, the central argument is that artworks are structured
so that they allow the maximal extraction of stored memory.
Furthermore, the book demonstrates that the emotion expressed
by an artwork 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 an artwork,
but also of its emotional expression. This fundamentally opposes
the view that the emotional expression of an artwork is undefinable.
Leyton's methodology makes the structure and emotional content
of an artwork fully definable, rich, systematic and complete.
The argument is supported with detailed analyses
of paintings by Picasso, Raphael, Cézanne, Gauguin, Modigliani,
Ingres, De Kooning, Memling, Balthus and Holbein.
The readership will also gain a lot on learning issues by looking
at the powerful statements on memory storage on Leyton's web-site:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton/homepage.htm
best
James Johnson
