CS 48N - The Science of ArtThis web page may continue to be updated after it is handed out in class.
Spring Quarter, 2007
Marc Levoy
Handout #3
(revised January 12, February 15)
Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994,
Chapter 7 - A truely marvelous feast, visual perspective, pp. 157-187
Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting, translated by M. Kemp and M. Walker, Yale University Press, 1989,
Part II - The science of vision in painting (except light and shade), pp. 49-69
Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994,
Chapter 8 - Perspective and the history of art, pp. 189-230
Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, second edition, enlarged, University of Chicago Press, 1970.
This will take a while to read, so you might want to start it the previous week.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting,
Part III - The human body, pp. 117-158
Baigrie, B., editor, Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science,
University of Toronto Press, 1996,
Essay 2 (excerpt) - from Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos, by M. Kemp, pp. 40 - 59.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting,
Part II - The science of vision in painting (light and shade), pp. 88-115
Minnaert, M.G.J., Light and Color in the Outdoors, translated and revised by L. Seymour, Springer-Verlag, 1993,
Chapter 1 - Light and shadows, pp. 1-8 Chapter 2 - Reflection of light, pp. 9-44
Baxandall, M., Shadows and Enlightenment, Yale University Press, 1995,
Chapter II - Enlightenment shadows, pp. 17-31
Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting
Part II - The science of vision in painting (color), pp. 70-88
Kemp, M., The Science of Art, Yale University Press, 1990.
Part III - The Colour of Light, pp. 259-322.