Book Reviews
Although our main focus at the Vision & Art Project is on profiling the lives and work of artists with macular degeneration, we range more widely in our book reviews. We review books in all genres by writers with macular degeneration. We also review memoirs by people with vision loss, artist biographies that include discussions of disability, fiction and poetry with vision-related themes, exhibition catalogs and monographs of artists with macular degeneration, and books about vision and perception. We highlight both recent publications and older works that are relevant to our project.
Let us know if you'd like to recommend a book for us to consider reviewing: aphillips.visionandartproject@gmail.com
The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control — And Live to Tell the Tale
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
Drawing on the Air: The Kinetic Sculpture of Tim Prentice
Georgia O’Keeffe (Exhibition Catalog)
Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective (Exhibition Catalog)
Degas and His Model: an eyewitness account of Degas’s studio practices late his life when he was blind—and a sometimes unflattering portrait of the aging artist
Blind Man’s Bluff: A poignant and humorous story of losing sight—and trying to hide it from the world.
Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
The World Through Blunted Sight: An Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character (Revised Edition)
The Hole In My Vision: An Artist’s View of His Own Macular Degeneration
The Eye of the Artist
The Artist’s Eyes: Vision and the History of Art
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Art and Opthalmology: The Impact of Eye Diseases on Painters
Sight Unseen
Degas Through His Own Eyes
