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Chapters: Anita Brookner, Vincent Price, Martin Kemp, Nicholas Serota, Brian Sewell, Nancy Johnson, Anne D'harnoncourt, Iain Sinclair, Jeff Wall, Nicky Gavron, Henry Conway, Oliver Millar, Melvin Day, Neil Macgregor, John Russell Taylor, T. J. Clark, Bernard William Smith, Nicole Krauss, Reyner Banham, John Shearman, Princess Sumaya Bint El Hassan, John Béchervaise, Roselee Goldberg, Simon Thurley, Jeremy Deller, Betty Churcher, Nicholas Penny, Michael Kitson, Lavinia Greenlaw, John White, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Denis Mahon, Andrew Graham-Dixon, David Elliott, Noah Charney, John Hayes, Cecil Gould, Perdita Weeks, Ron Bloore, Jane, Lady Roberts, Benedict Read, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Mark Jones, Thomas P. Campbell, William J. R. Curtis, Joshua Compston, Desmond Shawe-Taylor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. He speaks on issues of visualisation and lateral thinking to a wide range of audiences. Leonardo da Vinci has been the subject of books written by him, including Leonardo (Oxford University Press 2004). He has published on imagery in the sciences of anatomy, natural history and optics, including The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale University Press). Increasingly, he has focused on issues of visualization, modelling and representation. He writes a regular column on Science in Culture in Nature (an early selection published as Visualisations, OUP, 2000). The Nature essays are developed in Seen and Unseen (OUP 2006), in which his concept of structural intuitions is explored. His most recent book is The Huma...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5167023 ... Read more