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Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
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by David Summers
Sales Rank: 901763
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List Price: $39.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 232 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press October 8, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807831107
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807831106
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Product Review
Summers's fresh approaches to pictorial representation, perspective, and optics are a magisterial achievement.
-Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester
Product Description
Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, this book demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated to pictorial illusion in the development of Western painting from Hellenistic Greece to the present. The spread of understanding of how light is transmitted, reflected, and refracted is evident in the works of artists such as Brunelleschi, van Eyck, Alberti, and Leonardo. The interplay between optics and painting that influenced the course of Western art, Summers says, persisted as a framework for the realism of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Goya and continues today in modern photography and film. With 12 color and 79 b&w illus.
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