Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing

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In Vision and Art, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explains how the human vision system works and demonstrates that the answers to these and many other questions about art depend ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. In his foreword to this groundbreaking volume, Nobel Prize winner David Hubel expresses the hope that "in the future, visual neurobiology will enhance art in much the same way as a knowledge of bones and muscles has for centuries enhanced the ability of artists to portray the human body." The future begins now, with this far-reaching book.