On 20 Nov 02, at 21:18, Martin Krikorian wrote:
Oliver Sacks had another book of interest on this subject, "The Island of the Color Blind" is the title, as I recall. And in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" I believe that he writes of an artist who loses his color vision due to a central nervous system trauma. Evidently he not only lost the ability to see in color, but lost the concept of color itself. Unlike a man who might lose his hearing, but remember the sounds of things heard in the past, this poor soul (who's livelihood depended on his art) forgot what colors looked like.
The artist mentioned in "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" didn't lose the concept of color - he knew and remembered very bitterly what he *wasn't* seeing anymore. Several years later, he was starting to resume using color in his paintings, but only a single color (added to an otherwise B&W painting) and he *still* couldn't see any colors. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com