Vision and art
by Margaret Livingstone · first published 2014
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This book demonstrates that how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. This new expanded edition thoroughly updates this groundbreaking study with the latest findings gathered from the author's research, with 32 additional pages of new text and images, including 3 brand new chapters. This book begins by offering a comprehensive account of the biology of vision, drawing on the history of science and the author's own cutting edge discoveries. This book then turns to art and delves into the science underlying various phenomena in painting, using many examples from
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…A lot of the intuition behind subjective decisions in the arts can be further understood/explored/refined through the relevant science. For anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend the book "Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing" by Margaret Livingstone.
on “The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday” ↗…artificial-intelligence A lot of our visual perception happens on the retina and in the 'processing pipeline' before reaching the brain. Margaret Livingstone provides an excellent overview in her book "Vision and Art" and she takes a view similar to yours.
on “Five Learnings from 15 Years in Perception” ↗Yes, Margaret Livingstone discusses this in a chapter of the book 'Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing'. Animals evolved to have black & white vision first and then as color vision evolved the color information was patched onto the black & white signal.
on “Color appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors theory” ↗