Ipswich Public Library

The artist's eyes, vision and the history of art, Michael F. Marmor and James G. Ravin

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The artist's eyes

bibliography

317927186

Michael F. Marmor and James G. Ravin

vision and the history of art

From the Publisher: In this fascinating juxtaposition of science and art history, ophthalmologists Michael Marmor and James Ravin examine the role of vision and eye disease in art. They focus on the eye, where the process of vision originates, and investigate how aspects of vision have inspired and confounded many of the world's most famous artists. Why do Georges Seurat's paintings appear to shimmer? How come the eyes in certain portraits seem to follow you around the room? Are the broad brushstrokes in Monet's Water Lilies due to cataracts? Could van Gogh's magnificent yellows be a result of drugs? How does eye disease affect the artistic process? Or does it at all? The Artist's Eyes considers these questions and more. Using key works of art as well as innovative illustrations that simulate different artists' vision, Marmor and Ravin shed new light on the story of art

Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Eye As An Optical Instrument -- 1: Why glasses are needed -- 2: Myth of impressionism and myopia -- 3: El Greco -- 4: Euphronios: a presbyopic potter in ancient Athens -- Part 2: Coding And Contrast -- 5: Thinking eye: coding vision -- 6: Mach bands: the artist's "edge" -- 7: Light and dark/day and night -- Part 3: Addition Of Color -- 8: Recognizing color -- 9: Circle of color: Turner, Newton, and Goethe -- 10: Yellow vision of van Gogh -- 11: Seurat, color science, and Neo-Impressionism -- 12: Matisse and the implications of color -- 13: Chuck Close and the pixelated image -- Part 4: Limitations Of Color -- 14: Color deficiency: a different vision -- 15: Artist with a defect in color vision: Charles Meryon -- 16: Secret of Paul Henry -- Part 5: Perspective And Illusion -- 17: Perspective on perspective -- 18: Art with different perspectives -- 19: Illusion and art -- 20: Portraits (and paintings) that follow you -- 21: Escher and the ophthalmologist -- 22: Bridget Riley and the rationale for Op Art -- Part 6: Aging Eye -- 23: Aging eye: vision and disease -- 24: Dilemma of late style: Titian and Cezanne -- 25: Aging Rembrandt: maturity vs disease -- Part 7: External Eye Disease -- 26: Pissarro: the Lachrymose Impressionist -- 27: Are the eyes straight?: portraits and Rembrandt -- Part 8: Cataract And Glaucoma -- 28: Cataracts and the artist: Carriera, Martin, and others -- 29: Cataracts, diabetes, and radium: the case of Cassatt -- 30: Cataracts, surgery, and color: the case of Monet -- 31: Glaucoma and the artist -- 32: James Thurber and the sequelae of childhood injury -- Part 9: Retinal Disease -- 33: Retinal disease and art -- 34: Goya's strange malady -- 35: Blindness of Degas -- 36: Munch and visions from within the eye -- 37: Blurred world of Georgia O'Keeffe -- Part 10: Artist's View -- 38: Simulating the vision of Degas and Monet -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Index