Required readings for CS 48N

CS 48N - The Science of Art
Winter Quarter, 2003
Marc Levoy
Handout #3

Topic 1: perspective

Read by Thursday, January 9

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 14

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 16

Begin reading Kuhn (see below).

Read by Tuesday, January 21

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

Read by Tuesday, January 28

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

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

Read by Thursday, January 30

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 6

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

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

Read by Thursday, February 11

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 Tuesday, March 4

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 Thursday, March 6

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

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