The Artful Eye

R.L. Gregory,etc.,J Harris,P. Heard,David Rose

ISBN 10: 0198521952 / ISBN 13: 9780198521952

Published by OUP Oxford, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Artful Eye
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198521952
• ISBN 13: 9780198521952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This text presents the thoughts of scientists and artists working on many aspects of visual perception, ranging from the physiology of the brain, development of sight in infants and the significance of faces, to the physics of images and the mathematics of impossible objects. There are essays on perspective, especially of Vermeer's use of the Camera Obscura, alongside an examination of the art of the forger, portraits of artists and scientists, and a personal statement by the late sculptress, Dame Elisabeth Frink. The book includes colour plates by Hockney, Magritte, Vermeer and others and should appeal to psychologists, vision scientists and all those interested in the effect of the visual arts on the eye and brain.

About the Author

Professor R. L Gregory, who edited The Oxford Companion to the Mind (OUP, 1987), is at the Department of Psychology, Bristol University. Dr J. Harris and Dr P. Heard are both at that same establishment, while Dr D. Rose is at the Department of Psychology, Surrey University.