Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing Margaret Livingstone
Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.

Amazon.com Reviewp/pWhat is it that makes the work of Monet, van Gogh, da Vinci, and Warhol so visually arresting? Margaret Livingstone's "Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing" is another exceptionally readable book on light, color, and why and how we see the way we do, and what its implications are for art and artists. Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. In 'Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing' (Livingstone, 2008), the author demonstrated how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. Hubel), Livingstone says that each vision system is made of distinct, different types of neurons. Philip Ball ;s book Bright Earth : Art and the Invention of Color was a finalist for . In her book “Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing” (Margaret Livingstone, David H. In her book , “Vision and Art: the Biology of Seeing,” she explores the physics of light and how that visual information is processed in the brain. It has evolved over millions of years, not for the reward of cheese, but for the detection of fruit or edible leaves and moving prey or predators. But aesthetic theories about Art are fleshed out by a knowledge of the biological basis of Art and the visual system that creates and appreciates it. Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, by Margaret Livingstone As I started creating my Curations, understanding how people view art and how our vision system works was important to me. Our mental processes are Although vision is not the only sense it is the one most applicable to the Visual Arts.