Vision and Art (Updated and Expanded Edition): Updated and Expanded Edition - Hardcover

Livingstone, Margaret S.

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ISBN 10: 1419706926 ISBN 13: 9781419706929

Verlag: Abrams, 2014

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In this new expanded edition Livingstone thoroughly updates this groundbreaking study with the latest findings gathered from her research, with 32 additional pages of new text and images, including 3 brand new chapters. She begins by offering a comprehensive account of the biology of vision, drawing on the history of science and her own cutting edge discoveries. She then turns to art and delves into the science underlying various phenomena in painting, using many examples from the mysterious allure of the Mona Lisa to the amazing atmospheric effects of the impressionists to illustrate her points. Along the way, she shows how similar effects can be used to enhance the impact of advertisements, and explores the different ways images look in paintings, in photographs, on TV and on computer screens. By skillfully 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.

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Margaret Livingstone is Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She has published numerous scholarly articles about vision, and her discoveries have been reported in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and National Geographic.

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In Vision and Art, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone demonstrates that how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. In this new expanded edition Livingstone thoroughly updates this groundbreaking study with the latest findings gathered from her research, with 32 additional pages of new text and images, including 3 brand new chapters.

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• Verlag: Abrams
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1419706926
• ISBN 13: 9781419706929
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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