Preface: The Bottom of the Garden
Introduction: On Being Struck: Hitting the Eye/Arousing the Mind
Inscrutability
1 “Black and Glittering”: The Inscrutable Sublime
2 Lying Side by Side: Fitting Color to Eros
3 The Ultimate Conjuncture: What Shadows the Brain-Mind Merger?
4 Reconceiving the Warburg Library as a Working Museum of the Mind
Ineffability
5 From Communicable Matter to Incommunicable “Stuff”: Extreme Combinatorics and the Return of Ineffability
6 Impossible to Name: Performing the Ineffable
7 “Totally Visual”? Op Art’s Neural Iconography and the Engineered Picture
8 Dark Wonder: Belowness, or the Ineffable Underground
9 Still Deeper: The Non-Conscious Sublime or the Art and Science of Submergence
Intuitability
10 Strange Shadows/Marred Screens
11 Thought Gems: Inferencing from the Impersonal Crystalline
12 The Jewel Game: Gems, Fascination, and the Neuroscience of Visual Attention
13 From Observant Eye to Non-Attentive “I”: The Camera as Cognitive Device
14 Seizing Attention: Devices and Desires
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index