"Look and look again . . . at the sense which lets us see: Sight! Award-winning authors and artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv achieve a remarkable fusion of a far-reaching scientific and historical exploration of the phenomenon of sight with a philosophic reflection on its nature. A stunning sequence of rich infographics provoke the reader to look . . . learn . . . and think"-- Provided by publisher.

Ce livre est destine principalement aux etudiants du premier cycle universitaire inscrits dans un programme en psychologie. Il permet à l'etudiant de se familiariser avec la terminologie du domaine de la sensation et de la perception et de se sensibiliser au caractere relatif de la perception. L'ouvrage fournit egalement à l'etudiant l'occasion de comprendre de nombreux concepts et mecanismes fondamentaux susceptibles de le rendre apte à interpreter...

"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Whitney Davis is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton) and Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond. A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This...

"In this visual journey, author Ivars Peterson guides us to the crossroads of mathematics and art, creativity and imagination - and challenges long-held notions about the ways in which these connect." "Most of us have been led to believe that mathematics is right-brain work, art is left-brain work, case closed. Not so. This book shows just how intertwined the two disciplines are, while sharing exciting glimpses of artists enthralled by the unlimited...

"It's moving! Or is it? Optical illusions are tricks that our eyes and brain play on us to make us see things differently-like still images that appears to float, spin, or wiggle along. Explore magnificent moving illusions and learn the science behind what makes them work. Then, take a turn making your own optical illusion. Get ready to be eye-mazed!"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

Black illustrations against a white background depict such objects as an elephant, butterfly, and leaf.

"This clever picture book introduces the concept of animal characteristics by highlighting how there can be both differences and similarities within a group. For example, the zebra gallops, the bumblebee flies, the lemur leaps and the tiger prowls -- "But look closer now ... We all have STRIPES!" And so it goes. Again and again, readers will be surprised to find that a group of four seemingly different animals all have one trait in common -- whiskers,...

Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know. Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and aesthetic issues related to the visualization of reality. In Knowing It When You See It, Patrick O'Donnell compares several late novels and stories by Henry James with a series...

The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity. Levitt traces the early modern Russian...