The Artful Eye

 ( Book Product ) 

In the words of Richard Gregory ''Here are to be found novel links to art and science, and to mind and brain ..

• The Artful Eye available on July 14 2016 from Indigo for 248.5
  
• ISBN bar code 9780198521952 ξ1 registered July 14 2016
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 978019852195
  

These many themes are captured to weave a tapestry of the intelligent brain behind the artful eye.'' This fascinating volume 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 Elizabeth Frink. Complete with over 200 illustrations, including plates by Hockney, Magritte, Vermeer, and others this is an enlightening mixture of biology and aesthetics which will appeal to psychologists, vision scientists, and all those interested in the effect of the visual arts on the eye and brain.

^ The Artful Eye Indigo. ISBN 9780198521952 (revised Jul 2016)