The Perceptual Structure of Three-dimensional Art ― A Mapping Sentence Mereology

This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence mereology to model perceptual structure. It reviews the writing of philosophers such as Susanna Siegel and art theorists such as Krauss to establish the need for this research, and uses the shortcomings in the interpretations of the perceptual process put forward by Krauss, Siegel and others to help formulate a more comprehensive philosophical account. The book uniquely combines structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to artistic perception and understanding with a conceptual structure from facet theory, which is clarified with the help of a mapping sentence mereology.

Paul holds PhDs in psychology and fine art. He is a professor teaching ethnography at Emerson College, Boston and is a visiting academic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has previously worked at Birmingham, Cardiff and Tufts Universities and has held honorary appointments at institutions such as York University, Toronto, and Birmingham University, UK.