2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
James Gibson's Theory of Vision and Visual Culture in the twentieth-century America
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21520131
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
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| Research Institution | Yokohama National University |
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Principal Investigator |
KURENUMA Norihisa 横浜国立大学, 都市イノベーション研究院, 准教授 (20313166)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 視覚文化 / 建築 / アメリカ / 二十世紀 |
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| Research Abstract |
James J. Gibson(1904-1979) is known as an "ecological psychologist" who created the concept of "affordance". But what is the purpose of his project? In this research, I reconsider Gibson's theory of vision as contemporary "natural philosophy" in which perceptual systems attempt to directly encounter some complex environments in our world. Those environments are more complex than objects of communication and control in cybernetics. In this perspective, I go on to critically analyze "visual culture" including visual aspects of architecture in the 20^<th> century America.
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