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Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
Vision Reflection and Desire in Western Painting - Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
Author: David Summers
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, ref...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807831106
ISBN-10: 0807831107
Publication Date: 10/8/2007
Pages: 232
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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