Book description
How did faulty or failing eyesight affect the style and technique
of writers and artists. How did it affect the way they convey their
visual impressions. In a classic study, first published in 1970 and
thoroughly revised in 1988, Patrick Trevor-Roper combines his
professional knowledge of ophthalmology with his extensive familiarity
with art and literature to fascinatingly examine the work of painters,
sculptors, poets and prose writers. Looking at the effects of myopia,
cataracts, colour blindness, squints and total blindness he speculates
on what the impact would have been on artists had they worn glasses.
Illustrated with colour reproductions and a wealth of black and white
photos, this was a true labour of love from a highly cultured man,
erudite and stimulating.
