Echo objects : the cognitive work of images / Barbara Maria Stafford.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

xiii, 281 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-261) and index.

Form as figuring it out : toward a cognitive history of images -- Compressive compositions : emblem, symbol, symbiogenesis -- Mimesis again! inferring from appearances -- Primal visions : the geography of interiority -- How patterns meet : from representation to mental representation -- Impossible will? unconscious organization, conscious focus -- Coda : reverberations.