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Vision and art : the biology of seeing / by Margaret Livingstone ; foreword by David Hubel.

by Livingstone, Margaret.

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Visual perception.

Painting -- Psychological aspects.

Art -- Psychology.

Art -- Technique.

9781419706929 (hbk.)

Alternate title:

Biology of seeing

Revised and expanded edition.

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm.

Previous edition: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (page 234) and index.

How we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. This revised edition includes latest findings from the author's research. A comprehensive account of the biology of vision, drawing on the history of science and the author's discoveries. The science underlying various phenomena in painting, using examples from the mysterious allure of the Mona Lisa to the amazing atmospheric effects of the impressionists. How similar effects can be used to enhance the impact of advertisements, and the different ways images look in paintings, in photographs, on TV, and on computer screens. Accompanying Livingstone's lively and lucid prose are many charts and diagrams that clarify her points. Some of these illustrations are based on simple and elegant experiments that show us how the human visual system translates light into color. Others demonstrate how cells in the retina code information and send it to the brain. How great painters devise techniques to fool the eye into seeing depth and movement. Bridging the space between science and art, Vision and Art will arm artists and designers with new techniques that they can use in their own craft and thrill any reader with an interest in the biology of human vision. Margaret Livingstone is a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

Hubel, David H.

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