Author: Trevor-Roper, Patrick
Title: The World Through Blunted Sight: An inquiry into the influence of defective vision on art and character
Description: NY: Penguin Press/Allen Lane, 1970. new & revised edition., A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Man is a visual animal (about a half of our brain sensory stimulation travels over the optic nerves) and evolution has elevated vision to our primary sensing organ. However, visual can be blunted through disease or damage and this intriguing and now updated study provides long historical evidence of such damage through an examination of painting and the arts, illustrated.

Keywords: Art: criticism & theory 0713990066


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