The World Through Blunted Sight: An Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character - Tapa blanda

How did faulty or failing eyesight affect the style and technique of writers and artists. How did it affect the way they convey their visual impressions. In a classic study, first published in 1970 and thoroughly revised in 1988, Patrick Trevor-Roper combines his professional knowledge of ophthalmology with his extensive familiarity with art and literature to fascinatingly examine the work of painters, sculptors, poets and prose writers. Looking at the effects of myopia, cataracts, colour blindness, squints and total blindness he speculates on what the impact would have been on artists had they worn glasses. Illustrated with colour reproductions and a wealth of black and white photos, this was a true labour of love from a highly cultured man, erudite and stimulating.

Patrick Trevor-Roper has had a distinguished career in ophthalmology and has written the standard work on the subject. A former President of the Opthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, in 1977 he received the Society's first De Lancey Award 'for furtherance of the link between art and medicine'.