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LEARNING TO SEE

 cultures  of  seeing 

'Human vision is itself an artifact, produced by other artifacts, namely pictures'

Marx  W. Wartofsky, Picturing and Representing, New York, 1979

1            John Berger, cited text, from  John Berger's Ways of Seeing

2            Paul Kilsby, Iris M, 2001           

3            Paul Kilsby, Nice, August, 2008           

4            Trompe l'œil

5            Sim Aquarium 2.6 ,  Digital Illusions Software, released  August 2007

6            Paul Kilsby,  St Paul's  cathedral (from Tate Modern), screen façade, September, London, 2006

7            Masaccio, Trinity, Sta. Maria Novella, Florence, c. 1427

8            Martin Parr, Milton Keynes Showhouse, 1986

9            Masaccio, Trinity, Sta. Maria Novella, Florence, c. 1427

10           Coppo di Marcovoldo, Last Judgement, (detail), second half of thirteenth century

11            Taddeo Daddi, The Annunciation, c. 1340

12            Simone Martini, The Annunciation, 1333

13             Giotto, The Raising of Lazarus, Scrovegi Chapel, Padua., 1304-1306

14            Masaccio, Crucifixion, (from the Pisa polyptych), 1426

15            Masaccio, Trinity, St. Maria Novella (detail)

16            The logic of Masaccio's perspective in the Trinity

17            Donato Bramante, S. Satiro, Milan (early  sixteenth century)

18            Groundplan of S. Satiro           

 19           Piero della Francesca, The Flagellation of Christ, 1445-1460

20            Carlo Crivelli, Annunciation, 1486

21            Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1487?

22            Albrecht Dürer, Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Woman, 1538

23            Dany Leriche, Hanneke et Elise, 1993

24            Paul Virilio (cited text)

25            What the eye sees, from Robert L. Solso,  Cognition and the Visual Arts

26            Cone of Vision, showing foveal, parafoveal, near peripheral and peripheral vision

27            Different kinds of cells in the retina

28            Richard Gregory, cited text, from Eye & Brain

29            Wall paintings at the tomb of Tutankhamen

30            Alain, cartoon reproduced in The New Yorker, 1955

31            Katsushika Hockusai, Tago Bay near Eijira on Taikado, 1830 

32            Anonymous, Scene on Lake Tana, showing people travelling to a festival on an island church,  Twentieth Century, Ethiopian

33            Anonymous, A Victorian drawing class

34            Chinese, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, 1679-1701

35            Albrecht Dürer, Study in Proportions, c.1513

36            John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816

37            A child's copy of John Constable's Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816 (from Gömbrich)

38            The Müller-Lyer illusion

39            Zulu huts reproduced in Gregory, Eye & Brain,  1990

40            A mosquito

41            A mosquito

42            Pablo Picasso, The Factory, Horta de Ebro, 1909

43            Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911

44            David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood Talking to Bob Holman, Santa Monica, March 14th, 1983, 1983

45            Joyce Neiminas, Untitled, 1981

46            Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503 (blurred)

47            Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503 (pixellated)

48            Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503 (black and white photograph)

49            Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503  (colour reproduction)

50            Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

51            Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa, 1963

52            Outside the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 2007

53            Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504

54            Hermes with the Child Dionysius, c. 343. B.C.

55            Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so             appealing?  1956 (detail)

56            Anonymous, Bruce of Los Angeles, c.1957

Reading list for this week's lecture: 

R. L. Gregory, Eye and Brain, The Psychology of Perception,  1990 (fourth edition)

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1970

E. H. Gömbrich, Art & Illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation, 1991 (thirteenth edition)