LECTURES & LITERATURE

    What Art Can Tell Us About How We See

    What Art Can Tell Us About How We See

    Presented by Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

    October 24, 2012


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    Margaret Livingstone
    Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

    Margaret Livingstone's work places art history into a fascinating conversation with neurobiology. She argues that artists have over the centuries developed a kind of working theory of how we see, which anticipates contemporary scientific research on the neuro-processing of visual information. Drawing on examples that include da Vinci, Matisse, Chuck Close, and others, she shows how the great painters intuitively grasped such crucial features of human visual processing as the separate pathways for color versus luminance or the different resolutions of central versus peripheral vision.

    A program of the 2012-2013 Penn Humanities Forum on Peripheries.

    For more information, and to pre-register: http://www.phf.upenn.edu/12-13/livingstone.shtml


    • At-a-
      Glance

      • Venue Info

        University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

        3260 South Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

        Full map and directions

      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        FREE!

        Info Phone: 215-573-8280

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 24, 2012

        Times:

        5-6:30 pm

      • Accessibility Info

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