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

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006 page 186. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt-Taschenb.-Verlag. 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. What books would you say is a must buy in this list? In truth, however, the most important body part involved in our response to art is the brain. My fiance has started buying them but she doesn't know what ones would best to start with. Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. Vision.and.Art.The.Biology.of.Seeing.pdf. 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. Our mental processes are Although vision is not the only sense it is the one most applicable to the Visual Arts. Our eyes might act as conduits to relay information to our neural circuitry, but it is the brain that controls the experience of what we see. Amazon.com Reviewp/pWhat is it that makes the work of Monet, van Gogh, da Vinci, and Warhol so visually arresting? 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. (2002) Vision and art: the biology of seeing. (2001) Kunst und Gehirn : Die Eroberung des Unsichtbaren.