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Blindspots : the many ways we cannot see / Bruno G. Breitmeyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199745432
  • 0199745439
  • 0195394267
  • 9780195394269
  • 1282402862
  • 9781282402867
  • 9786612402869
  • 6612402865
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blindspots.DDC classification:
  • 152.14 22
LOC classification:
  • BF241 .B728 2010eb
NLM classification:
  • 2010 D-791
  • BF 241
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Contents; PART I: BLINDNESS CORPOREAL; ONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF VISION AND BLINDNESS; TWO: OUR INHERITANCE: Functional Constraints on "Normal" Vision; THREE: OUR MISINHERITANCE: Blindness 1; FOUR: OUR MISFORTUNE: Blindness 2; FIVE: EXPERIMENTAL SLEIGHT-OF-HAND OR: Whoa! Where Did It Go and Where Did It Come From?; PART II: BLINDNESS BORDERLANDS: Between the (Corpo)Real and the Metaphorical; SIX: VISUAL AGNOSIAS AND NEGLECT; SEVEN: BLINDNESS AND THE MIND'S EYE; PART III: BLINDNESS METAPHORICAL; EIGHT: SEEING AND NOT SEEING IN THE VISUAL ARTS.
Summary: Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and complete a picture of the world around us as we think we do. The gaps between what our eyes take in and what is in our mind's eye provide the unifying theme in Bruno Breitmeyer's wide-ranging volume. In his fascinating account of the many ways that our eyes, and minds, both see and fail to see, Breitmeyer.
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Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and complete a picture of the world around us as we think we do. The gaps between what our eyes take in and what is in our mind's eye provide the unifying theme in Bruno Breitmeyer's wide-ranging volume. In his fascinating account of the many ways that our eyes, and minds, both see and fail to see, Breitmeyer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Contents; PART I: BLINDNESS CORPOREAL; ONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF VISION AND BLINDNESS; TWO: OUR INHERITANCE: Functional Constraints on "Normal" Vision; THREE: OUR MISINHERITANCE: Blindness 1; FOUR: OUR MISFORTUNE: Blindness 2; FIVE: EXPERIMENTAL SLEIGHT-OF-HAND OR: Whoa! Where Did It Go and Where Did It Come From?; PART II: BLINDNESS BORDERLANDS: Between the (Corpo)Real and the Metaphorical; SIX: VISUAL AGNOSIAS AND NEGLECT; SEVEN: BLINDNESS AND THE MIND'S EYE; PART III: BLINDNESS METAPHORICAL; EIGHT: SEEING AND NOT SEEING IN THE VISUAL ARTS.

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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