On Picture Making and Picture Seeing

Jan B. Deręgowski, D.Sc., FRSE, FBPsS, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. He has been pursuing studies of visual perception in many cultures and has published some of his findings in Illusions, Patterns and Pictures (Academic Press, 1980) as well as, recently, two overviews: Cross-cultural Studies of Illusions (in the Oxford compendium of Visual Illusions, OUP, 2017) and The Psychology of Graphic Perception (in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art, OUP, 2018).

• Introduction in which the reader enters pictorial donnybrook.-  On perception of depth, real and portrayed.- On perspective in many guises.- On prof. Farish's immediately comprehensible and Cezanne's immediately puzzling pictures.-  On cultural press; If we draw, what and how should we draw?.