The Visual World of Shadows - Paperback
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The Visual World of Shadows - Paperback
$144.00
by Roberto Casati (Author), Patrick Cavanagh (Author)
How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system.
In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision--which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects--and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. Casati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows; shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it; shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows; and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus.Author Biography
Roberto Casati is Director of the Jean Nicod Institute and Professor at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. He is the coauthor of The Visual World of Shadows, Parts and Places, and Holes and Other Superficialities (all MIT Press).
Patrick Cavanagh is a Senior Research Fellow at Glendon College of York University, Toronto, and Research Professor at Dartmouth College.
Number of Pages: 408
Dimensions: 1.11 x 9 x 8 IN
Publication Date: December 26, 2023
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