Word: retina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was the way the eyes had it one evening last week at the preview of an exhibition of op art held by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Origin of that uncertain feeling was not only the 123 pieces of calculated retina-wrenching on the museum walls. Many of the previewers seemed as bent as the artists on manipulating the wandering...
JOAN: Pedicatio on the patio or rhabdomes in the retina...
Many eye surgeons have learned to correct detachment of the retina by putting a plastic girdle around the eyeball and squeezing it back into shape. And Dr. Stone has implanted plastic tubes in the eyes of glaucoma patients at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to remove the accumulation of fluid that causes high pressure inside the eyeball-and eventually blindness...
...shapes together, which cause the eye to perceive them alternately as figure and ground; the theory is that such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement on the retina. In his Union of the Four (at right), the red pigment throughout the painting is the same hue, despite what the eye sees...
...spectacles at the Ulm cathedral. "They have been depersonalized, yet might have died with satisfaction that they helped create something still pulsating 500 years later." His works, dotted with neat cones of oil, are uniformly produced in permutations of the spectrum: a painstaking topography that seems to prick the retina...