Religion and Art

Diane Ackerman, Richard Gregory, and James Elkins each highlight a different aspect of visual
perception. Referring to their writings in the textbook (pp. 27–45) answer any ONE of the
following:
1) Focus on one key idea of each of these three authors, and compare and contrast each author’s
approach to the subject of visual perception, noting how their approaches differ or overlap with
each other.
OR
2) Focus on one key idea of each of these three authors, providing an example for each idea from
your own experience.
Remember that whenever you quote or paraphrase the author’s ideas, you should cite the author
accurately by last name and page number). For example, “(Gregory, 36).”