Seminar Readings
Unit 1: The origins of the physical sciences and the
foundations of art history
- Panofsky, Erwin. Galileo as a Critic of the Arts.
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1954.
- Ederton, S.Y. Jr. "Geometrization of Astonomical
Space: Galiileo, Florentine Disegno, and the 'Strange Spottednesse' of the Moon," in The
Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. pp223-253.
- Holly, M.A. "Panofsky and Cassirer,"
in Phillip P. Wiener, Charles S. Pierce: Selected Writings. New York:
Doubleday, 1958. pp142-159.
- Murphey, Murray G. The Development of Peirce's Philosophy,
introduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. pp1-5.
Unit 2: The discovery of form
- Whyte, Lancelot L. "Atomism: Structure
and Form," in Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Structure in Art and in Science.
New York: George Braziller, 1965. pp20-28.
- Bronowski, Jacob, "The Discovery
of Form," in Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Structure in Art and in Science.
New York: George Braziller, 1965. pp55-65.
- Edelman, Gerald M. "The Wordless Metaphor: Visual
Art and the Brain," in Klaus Kertess, 1995 Biennial Exhibition.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. pp33-47.
Unit 3: Physical connections in the brain
- Cantor and Schimmel, Biophysical
Chemistry:
The Conformation of Biological Macromolecules. New York:
Freeman, 1980. pp69, 91-93.
- Shapiro, L., et al. "Structural
Basis of Cell-Cell Adhesion by Cadherins." Nature, vol. 374,
327-337 (1995).
- Edelman, Gerald M. Bright Air, Brilliant
Fire: On the Matter of the Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1992. pp81-98.
- Herwitz, Daniel. Making Theory/Constructing
Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
pp33-59.
Unit 4: Visual perception in art
- Arnheim, Rudolf. "A Review of
Proportion," in Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Module, Proportion, Symmetry,
Rhythm. New York: George Braziller, 1996. pp218-230.
- Gombrich, E.H. The Sense of Order:
A Study in the Psychology of Decorating Art. New York: Phaidon, 1984.
pp1-16.
- Gombrich, E.H. The Sense of Order:
A Study in the Psychology of Decorating Art. New York: Phaidon, 1984.
pp95-116.
Unit 5: Vision and creativity
- Marr, David. Vision: A Computational
Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information.
New York: Freeman, 1982. pp29-61.
- Ehrenzeig, Anton. "Conscious Planning
and Unconscious Scanning," in Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Education of Vision.
New York: George Braziller, 1965. pp27-49.
Unit 6: The parallelism of model art and cognitive science
- Crick, Francis. The Astonishing
Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1994. pp203-214.
- Haftmann, Werner. Painting in the
Twentieth Century. New York: Praeger, 1965. pp17-40.
- Vitz, Paul, and Arnold B. Glimcher.
Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision.
New York: Praeger, 1984. pp2-40 and 72-87.
Unit 7: Plasticity in mind and art
- Singer, Wolf. "Development and
Plasticity of Cortical Processing Architectures." Science,
vol. 270, 758-764 (1995).
- Lindsay, Kenneth C., and Peter Vergo,
ed. Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art. New York: De Capo, 1994.
pp342-391.