Required readings for CS 48N

CS 48N - The Science of Art
Winter Quarter, 2011
Marc Levoy
Handout #3

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Read by Thursday, January 6

Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994,

Chapter 7 - A truely marvelous feast, visual perspective, pp. 157-187

Read by Tuesday, January 11

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

Read by Thursday, January 13

Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994,

Chapter 8 - Perspective and the history of art, pp. 189-230

Read by Tuesday, January 18

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.

Read by Thursday, January 20

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting,

Part III - The human body, pp. 117-158

Read by Tuesday, January 25

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.

Read by Tuesday, February 8

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting,

Part II - The science of vision in painting (light and shade), pp. 88-115

Read by Thursday, February 10

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

Read by Tuesday, February 15

Baxandall, M., Shadows and Enlightenment, Yale University Press, 1995,

Chapter II - Enlightenment shadows, pp. 17-31

Read by Tuesday, February 22

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

Part II - The science of vision in painting (color), pp. 70-88

Read by Thursday, February 24

Kemp, M., The Science of Art, Yale University Press, 1990.

Part III - The Colour of Light, pp. 259-322.

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