Author: Michael Baxandall
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072723
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Shadows are holes in light. We see them all the time, and sometimes we notice them, but their part in our visual experience of the world is mysterious. In this book, an art historian draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual perception, and art history to discuss shadows and the visual knowledge they can offer.