Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
"An insightful investigation of the intersections of painting, optics, and perception. . . . The general thrust of the book, with its emphasis on the historical and even human basis for perspective, offers an important answer to critiques which treat it as conventional or arbitrary."—Renaissance Quarterly"Looks beyond the merely geometric aspects of sight to the higher-order activities of vision and the role of memory. . . . Recommended."—CHOICE"Looks beyond the merely geometric aspects of sight to the higher-order activities of vision and the role of memory."&3151;CHOICESummers's fresh approaches to pictorial representation, perspective, and optics are a magisterial achievement.-Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester