Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Eye As An Optical Instrument -- 1: Why glasses are needed -- 2: Myth of impressionism and myopia -- 3: El Greco -- 4: Euphronios: a presbyopic potter in ancient Athens -- Part 2: Coding And Contrast -- 5: Thinking eye: coding vision -- 6: Mach bands: the artist's "edge" -- 7: Light and dark/day and night -- Part 3: Addition Of Color -- 8: Recognizing color -- 9: Circle of color: Turner, Newton, and Goethe -- 10: Yellow vision of van Gogh -- 11: Seurat, color science, and Neo-Impressionism -- 12: Matisse and the implications of color -- 13: Chuck Close and the pixelated image -- Part 4: Limitations Of Color -- 14: Color deficiency: a different vision -- 15: Artist with a defect in color vision: Charles Meryon -- 16: Secret of Paul Henry -- Part 5: Perspective And Illusion -- 17: Perspective on perspective -- 18: Art with different perspectives -- 19: Illusion and art -- 20: Portraits (and paintings) that follow you -- 21: Escher and the ophthalmologist -- 22: Bridget Riley and the rationale for Op Art -- Part 6: Aging Eye -- 23: Aging eye: vision and disease -- 24: Dilemma of late style: Titian and Cezanne -- 25: Aging Rembrandt: maturity vs disease -- Part 7: External Eye Disease -- 26: Pissarro: the Lachrymose Impressionist -- 27: Are the eyes straight?: portraits and Rembrandt -- Part 8: Cataract And Glaucoma -- 28: Cataracts and the artist: Carriera, Martin, and others -- 29: Cataracts, diabetes, and radium: the case of Cassatt -- 30: Cataracts, surgery, and color: the case of Monet -- 31: Glaucoma and the artist -- 32: James Thurber and the sequelae of childhood injury -- Part 9: Retinal Disease -- 33: Retinal disease and art -- 34: Goya's strange malady -- 35: Blindness of Degas -- 36: Munch and visions from within the eye -- 37: Blurred world of Georgia O'Keeffe -- Part 10: Artist's View -- 38: Simulating the vision of Degas and Monet -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Index.
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