The practice of light : a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels /
Sean Cubitt.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
- Leonardo .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- [black] -- Line -- Surface -- Texture -- Color -- Space -- Shadows -- Layers -- Projection -- Time -- Reflection.
An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.
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Art and technology. Visual perception.
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