Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
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Hardin wrote the book for philosophers.<br />
As he remarks, they are fond of<br />
referring to colour as an illustration<br />
about epistemological <strong>and</strong> ontological<br />
truths, without really knowing much<br />
about the physical <strong>and</strong> biological reality<br />
of colour. An entertaining lesson<br />
in scientific integrity for us all. The<br />
book won the 1986 Johnsonian Prize<br />
for Philosophy.<br />
Katz, David (2002). The World of<br />
Colour. Routledge, London.<br />
Katz’s classic work, first published in<br />
German as Der Aufbau der Farbwelt<br />
in 1910, offers a phenomenological<br />
overview of colour as it appears to us<br />
in everyday situations. Katz’s division<br />
of colour phenomena into eight<br />
‘modes of appearance’ are a corner<br />
stone of perceptual colour research.<br />
Liljefors, A. (2005). Lighting –<br />
Visually <strong>and</strong> Physically. Revised<br />
edition. KTH Lighting Laboratory,<br />
Stockholm. Liljefors’<br />
little textbook for students of architecture<br />
<strong>and</strong> lighting design provides an<br />
important discussion <strong>and</strong> analysis of<br />
the differences between visual <strong>and</strong><br />
physical approaches to light, <strong>and</strong> presents<br />
a number of concepts for visual<br />
analysis of light in its spatial context.<br />
Merleau-Ponty M (1962/2002) The<br />
Phenomenology of Perception.<br />
Routledge, London <strong>and</strong> New<br />
York. Merleau-Ponty claims that perception<br />
is what gives us access to the<br />
world <strong>and</strong> that the perceived world<br />
establishes the development of the<br />
human <strong>and</strong> social world, which is implicitly<br />
present in all perceptions. In<br />
this perspective he discusses the role<br />
of the human senses. The Phenomenology<br />
of Perception is Merleau-<br />
Ponty’s most famous work.<br />
Noë, Alva (2004). Action in Perception.<br />
MIT Press, Cambridge,<br />
MA <strong>and</strong> London, UK. Alva Noë’s<br />
philosophical essay builds on Gibson’s<br />
theory of the ecology of perception.<br />
Noë extends the ideas further to include<br />
action of the perceiver as a central<br />
concept in the formation of visual<br />
perception. Furthermore, he challenges<br />
the traditional idea that our<br />
thoughts <strong>and</strong> perceptions happen in<br />
our brain only.<br />
Valberg, A. (2005). Light Vision<br />
Color. John Wiley & Sons,<br />
Chichester. Arne Valberg in Light<br />
Vision Color takes an interdisciplinary<br />
approach to the visual system <strong>and</strong><br />
combines fundamentals behind the<br />
visual sciences with recent developments<br />
from neuroscience, biophysics,<br />
psychophysics <strong>and</strong> sensory psychology.<br />
He deals with the basic perception<br />
of colour, light <strong>and</strong> space <strong>and</strong> discusses<br />
perceptual experience <strong>and</strong> relevant<br />
brain processes. He also explores<br />
photometry, contrast sensitivity<br />
<strong>and</strong> the relations between light,<br />
colour <strong>and</strong> colorimetry.<br />
SYN-TES. This book is the result of a<br />
wider research project that involved<br />
other aspects of colour <strong>and</strong> light <strong>and</strong><br />
their spatial interaction. Reports, articles<br />
<strong>and</strong> conference papers from the<br />
SYN-TES project (mostly in Swedish,<br />
but some in English) can be downloaded<br />
from www.konstfack.se/SYN-<br />
TES.<br />
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