ABRAMS | ISBN:0810995549 | File Type: PDF, 208 pages | File size: 53.Mb | Apr. 1st, 2008
General Biology: The Biology of Seeing Now in paperback this groundbreaking study by Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explores the inner workings of vision demonstrating that how we see art depends timately on the cells in our eyes and our brains In Vision and Art Livingstone explains how great painters fool the brain why Mona Lisa s smile seems so mysterious Monet s oppy Field appears to sway in the breeze Mondrian s Broadway Boogie Woogie blinks like the lights of Times Square and Warhol s Electric Chair pses with current Drawing on history and her own cutting edge discoveries Livingstone offers intriguing insights from explanations of common optical illusions to specations on the correlation of learning disabilities with artistic skill By skillfly bridging the space between science and art Vision and Art will both 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
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