Thursday, October 9, 2008

books!!!

(All of these can be found on Amazon.)

BOOKS I HAVE READ:

Creating Minds: An Anatomy Of Creativity As Seen Through The Lives Of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, And Gandhi
by Howard Gardner


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Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
by Rudolf Arnheim


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Powers of Ten (Revised)
by Philip Morrison


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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities
Beautiful Evidence
by Edward R. Tufte



(to be fair, I did not read these 4 cover to cover)
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BOOKS I AM IN THE PROCESS OF READING:

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by Rudolf Arnheim


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Kant's Aesthetic Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition
by Salim Kemal


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Eye and Brain:
The psychology of seeing
by Richard L. Gregory


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BOOKS I HAVE, BUT STILL NEED TO READ:

Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology
by Vicki Bruce , Mark A. Georgeson, Patrick R. Green


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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
by Donald D. Hoffman


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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
by Leonard Shlain


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Language and Symbolic Systems
by Yuen Ren Chao
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BOOKS I WANT TO READ, BUT DON'T HAVE:

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information
by Wojciech H. Zurek


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Visual Thinking
by Rudolf Arnheim


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Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays
by Rudolf Arnheim


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New Essays on the Psychology of Art
by Rudolf Arnheim


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Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain
by Semir Zeki


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Side note: could the covers of these books be any more painful if they tried???
These are books about VISUAL perception!!!

Also, there are a few more books that I read this past summer and last year, but do not have the titles with me.
I can post those when I return to New York.

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