Colour blindness does not preclude fame as an artist: Celebrated Australian artist Clifton Pugh was a protanope

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 421-428

  Cole, Barry L ^a   Harris, Ross W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Victorian College of Optometry   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abnormal colour vision; Art; Protanopia; Vischeck transformation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; PAINTING; PEDIGREE; PUBLIC FIGURE;

ART; AUSTRALIA; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PAINTINGS; PEDIGREE;

EID: 69449088914     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2009.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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