Art & ophthalmology : the impact of eye disease on painters / Philippe Lanthony ; translated by Colin Mailer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanthony, Philippe.

Contributor:

Mailer, Colin.

Series:

Hirschberg history of ophthalmology. Monographs

History of Ophthalmology - The Monographs Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painters--Diseases.

Painters.

Eye--Diseases.

Eye.

Ophthalmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Piribebuy, Paraguay : Wayenborgh Publications, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Methodology; Portraits of painters wearing glasses; Self-portraits; The wearing of Glasses for Presbyopia in a Self-portrait; The heteroportraits; Diagnosis of the type of refractive error according to the portraits of the painters; Population study; First period: before 1800; Second period: after 1800; FRANCE; GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM; ITALY; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; BENELUX; SCANDINAVIA; USA; The diagnosis of the type of refractive error; From Charles Gleyre in the East to the Paris of Camille Pissarro; Constraints Created by Dacryocystitis; The Parisian Peregrinations of Camille Pissarro

Rodolphe Bresdin's Rabbit and the Tapestry of Aristide Maillol; Curable forms of Blindness; Cataract and Painting; How do Modifications in Lens Structure alter the Optical; How does alteration in Optical Properties disturb; Retina adapts to changes in the color of the lens; Cataract and Metamerism; Cataract in the History of Painting; Cataract Research in Painters of the Renaissance Period and the Baroque; The Aphakic Painters; Aphakic Painters in the History of Art; How Monet's cataract developed; Monet's Color Vision while his cataract was developing; The Aphakia of Claude Monet

The Effects of Aphakia on Monet's Painting; Monet's Colors after he became Aphakic; Vitreous; The Toads of Rodolphe Töpffer; Analysis of Munch's Entoptic Visual Phenomenon; Color Vision Deficiencies; The influence of the hereditary dyschromatopsias on painting; Paintings produced spontaneously by Congenitally Color-blind Artists; The Legend of the total Colorblindness of Eugène Carrière; The Problem of Constable; Artistic Behavior of Color-blind Persons; Congenitally Color-blind Persons in the History of Art; The Congenital color-blindness of Meryon; Meryon as Engraver

Paris in Black and White by Charles Meryon; Congenitally color-blind artists in the 20th Century; Congenital color-blindness and Art Criticism; Acquired Retinopathies; Procedures used by Degas to; Defective Eyesight and Degas' Art; Evolution of the Degas Technique; Diabetes and Painting; The Eyes of Older Painters; The Normal Effects of Age on Vision; How can we define "age-related pictorial style"?; Experimental study of the style of painting in old age.; Age-related Ocular Pathology and Painting; ARMD in the history of Painting; Old Age and Creativity; Octogenarian Painters

Nonagenarian Painters; Neurology and Painting; PATHOLOGY OF THE OPTIC PATHWAYS AND PAINTING; Glaucoma; The Optic Neuropathies; Pathology in the Optic Chiasm; Intoxications and Painting; Visual Pathology of the Cerebral Cortex and Painting; Ophthalmic Migraine and Painting; Hemianopsias; Cerebral Achromatopsia; The Strange Blindness of Lemordant; The Problem of Lemordant's Blindness; Painters with strabismus; Identification of Strabismic Painters; Clinical Features of Strabismus in Pictures; The Corneal Reflex; Bifoveal Fixation in Self-Portraiture

What is the role of a change in binocularty for the strabismic painter?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-6299-847-X

OCLC:

609842310