Need to read these. now.

I should be banned from The Strand. Every time I go I spend minimum 4-5 hours there, and then have to take a cab home I bought so many books.

But at least this time these were all in the name of thesis. Or at least that is what I tell myself...

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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art



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Design and Art (Documents of Contemporary Art)


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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Illustrated Guide 1972


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Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art

(couldn't find any photos of the cover)
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Modern Art: A Critical Introduction


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Modern Painting And Sculpture: 1880 To Present From The Museum Of Modern Art


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Add it to the list of yet another book I want.

This is the amazon description...

Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics, highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum spac, and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design.

Various chapters concentrate on the process of architectural and spatial reshaping, and the problems of navigating the often contradictory agendas and aspirations of the broad range of professionals and stakeholders involved in any new project.

Contributors review recent new build, expansion and exhibition projects questioning the types of museum space required at the beginning of the twenty-first century and highlighting a range of possibilities for creative museum design.

Essential reading for anyone involved in creating, designing and project managing the development of museum exhibits, and vital reading for students of the discipline.

More than a little excited.

My fav person, Semir Zeki, is coming out with a new book entitled Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness



It comes out Nov 14th in the UK, and January 27 in the US.
Score for being in London right now!!!

Below is the book's publishers short description, and then the table of contents for it.
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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. The book, whose title is derived from the novel of Balzac entitled Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, tries to show that there is a huge price to pay, in terms of human happiness, for the enormously elegant and efficient machinery of the brain.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction.

Part I. Abstraction and the Brain.

    1. Abstraction.
    2. The Brain and Its Concepts.
    3. Inherited Brain Concepts.
    4. The Distributed Knowledge-Acquiring System of the Brain.
    5. The Acquired Synthetic Brain Concepts.
    6. The Synthetic Brain Concept and the Platonic Ideal.
    7. Creativity and the Source of Perfection in the Brain.

Part II. Brain Concepts and Ambiguity.

    8. Ambiguity in the Brain and in Art.
    9. Processing and Perceptual Sites in the Brain.
    10. From Unambiguous to Ambiguous Knowledge.
    11. Higher Levels of Ambiguity.

Part III. Unachievable Brain Concepts.

    Introduction.
    12. Michelangelo and the non-finito.
    13. Paul Cézanne and the Unfinished.
    14. Unfinished Art in Literature.

Part VI. Brain Concepts of Love.

    Conte By Arthur Rimbaud, in English and in French.
    15. The Brain's Concepts of Love.
    16. The Neural Correlates of Love.
    17. Brain Concepts of Unity and Annihilation in Love.
    18. Sacred and Profane.
    19. The Metamorphosis of the Brain Concept of Love in Dante.
    20. Wagner and Tristan und Isolde.
    21. Thomas Mann and Death in Venice.
    22. A neurobiological analysis of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents
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Literally already have it pre-ordered.

After doing so much research into the psychology and sociology of happiness last year in my information design class,
this book seems like it will just bring everything full circle tying that stuff into all of my visual perception research.
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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.