In the book "Vision and Art," Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explains how the human visual system works and shows that the answers to the above and many other questions related to art ultimately depend on the cells of our eyes and brain.

In the foreword to this innovative book, Nobel Prize winner David Hubel expresses hope that "in the future, visual neurobiology will improve art in the way that knowledge of bones and muscles has improved artists' ability to depict the human body for centuries."

The future begins now, with this important book.