Required readings for CS 99D

CS 99D - The Science of Art
Winter Quarter, 1999
Marc Levoy
Handout #4
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Topic 1: perspective

Read by Tuesday, January 12

  1. Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994.
  2. Herman von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: popular and philosophical essays, edited by D. Cahan, University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Read by Thursday, January 14

  1. Solso, R.L., Cognition and the Visual Arts, The MIT Press, 1994.
  2. Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting, translated by M. Kemp and M. Walker, Yale University Press, 1989.

Read by Tuesday, January 19

Begin reading Kuhn (see below).

Read by Thursday, January 21

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

Read by Thursday, January 28

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

Read by Tuesday, February 2

Baigrie, B., editor, Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science, University of Toronto Press, 1996

Read by Thursday, February 11

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting

Read by Thursday, February 18

  1. Baxandall, M., Shadows and Enlightenment, Yale University Press, 1995.
  2. Minnaert, M.G.J., Light and Color in the Outdoors, translated and revised by L. Seymour, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Read by Thursday, February 25

  1. Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting
  2. Kemp, M., The Science of Art, Yale University Press, 1990.


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