Rare Books
The responsive eye
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- Description
- The Responsive Eye, an exhibition of more than 120 paintings and constructions by 99 artists from some 15 countries, documents a widespread and powerful new direction in contemporary art. These works exist less as objects to be examined than as generators of perceptual responses in the eye and mind of the viewer. Using only lines, bands and patterns, flat areas of color, white, gray or black or cleanly cut wood, glass, metal and plastic, perceptual artists establish a new relationship between the observer and a work of art. These new kinds of subjective experiences, which result from the simultaneous contrast of colors, after-images, illusions and other optical devices, are entirely real to the eye even though they do not exist physically in the work itself. Each observer sees and responds somewhat differently.
- Publication date
- [1965]
- Call number
- 637014
- Creator
- Seitz, William C
