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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)
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, 2000 (a wonderful book – buy it for £3.00 at Amazon)
