Book and films | Top ten books These are ten books recommended
by Patrick Hughes for anybody interested in some of the theory and influences
behind Reverspective.
This collection covers a wide range of topics in the study of perception,
mathematics and art. The works have been selected not only for their
depth of understanding but also their lively and engaging style.
If you would like to read reviews or find copies of these works, click
on the links to Amazon below.
1. The
Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries
Robin Evans, 2002, MIT Press
2. The
Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
3. Ecological
Approach to Visual Perception
James Jerome Gibson, 1986, L Erlbaum, US
4. A
Vision of the Brain: The Visible World and the Cortex
Semir Zeki, 1993, Blackwell Press
5. Visual
Perception: An Introduction
Nicholas Wade & Michael Swanston, 2001, Psychology Press
6. Optics,
Painting and Photography
M.H. Pirenne, 1970, Cambridge University Press
7. The
Perceptual World
Irvin Rock, 1990, W H Freeman
8. Varieties
of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art
Margaret A. Hagen, 1986 Cambridge University Press
9. The
Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
Francis Crick (Foreword), Christof Koch, 2004, Roberts & Co Publishers
10. The
Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
J.V. Field, 1997, Oxford University Press
