{"product_id":"the-minds-eyes-trevor-oaks-9780789214126","title":"The Mind's Eyes: Investigating Vision Through Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince childhood, Ryan and Trevor Oakes--artists and identical twins--have been engaged in a collaborative investigation of light and the way our eyes and minds perceive it. This investigation they have carried out through, and in service of, their shared artistic practice. Their best-known works are a series of concave perspective drawings and paintings whose shape is based on the insight that the light rays intercepted by the human eye are the radii of a sphere. The twins execute these concave works with their \"double-ghost drawing\" technique, which turns their own defocused binocular vision into a kind of \u003cem\u003ecamera lucida\u003c\/em\u003e, allowing them trace what they see one narrow strip at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Mind's Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e, the Oakes twins recount their entire artistic journey: their childhood experiments with eyesight and perception; their education at the Cooper Union, where they created rule-based sculptures whose emergent forms led them to a new understanding of the geometry of light and vision; and the nearly two-decade evolution of their concave perspective works, in which they have relentlessly explored line, form, and, more recently, the representation of the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is illustrated with more than 70 full-page reproductions of the Oakeses' finest works, as well as a pop-up reproduction of one of their concave drawings. \u003cem\u003eThe Mind's Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal not only to followers of contemporary art but to anyone who is interested in perception, cognition, and the connections between art and science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trevor Oaks, Ryan Oaks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0789214121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789214126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Abbeville Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Trevor Oaks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080274079999,"sku":"9780789214126","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_097644c1-840b-4987-bec0-9635b8c203a5.jpg?v=1685485897","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-minds-eyes-trevor-oaks-9780789214126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}