Required readings for CS 99D

CS 99D - The Science of Art
Winter Quarter, 2001
Marc Levoy
Handout #3

Topic 1: perspective

Read by Thursday, January 11

1. Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994.
   • Chapter 7 - A truely marvelous feast, visual perspective, pp. 157-187
2. Herman von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: popular and philosophical essays, edited by D. Cahan, University of Chicago Press, 1995.
   • Chapter 10 - The relation of optics to painting, pp. 279-308

Read by Tuesday, January 16

1. Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994.
   • Chapter 8 - Perspective and the history of art, pp. 189-230
2. 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. 49-88

Read by Thursday, January 18

Begin reading Kuhn (see below).

Read by Tuesday, January 23

Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, second edition, enlarged, University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Read by Tuesday, January 30

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

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

Read by Thursday, February 1

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 13

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

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

Read by Thursday, February 15

1. Baxandall, M., Shadows and Enlightenment, Yale University Press, 1995.
   • Chapter II - Enlightenment shadows, pp. 17-31
2. 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 Thursday, March 1

1. Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting
   • Part II - The science of vision in painting (color), pp. 70-88
2. Prepare answers to handout: "Some questions about color"

Read by Tuesday, March 6

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

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