The Life and Unusual Ideas of Adelbert Ames, Jr
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3980528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roy R Behrens (0000-0002-5652-4335, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1578173 |
| OpenAlex | W2333162778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper is a summary of the life and major achievements of Adelbert Ames, Jr., an American ophthalmologist and perceptual psychologist, who had initially wanted to be a visual artist. He is most widely remembered today as the inventor of the Ames Demonstrations in Perception, the most famous of which consists of a distorted room in which people seem to shrink as they walk from one corner to another. This essay discusses the relationship of the Ames Demonstrations to anamorphic visual art, and it documents various comments by perceptual psychologists and artists who were directly acquainted with Ames
Inventions from Photography
Anamorphosis and the Eccentric Observer
The Conceptual Framework of My Computer-Assisted Drawings
The Artistic and Scientific Collaboration of Blanche Ames Ames and Adelbert Ames II
The Strategic Universality of trans / formation , 1950–1952
The Role of Artists in Ship Camouflage During World War I
Leonardo da Vinci's Struggles with Representations of Reality
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2009 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |