The Poetics Of Perspective
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The Poetics of Perspective
Author | : James Elkins |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780801483790 |
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"My principal concern in this book is the way we talk about pictures...Renaissance writers and artists imagined perspective quite differently than we do... I maintain... that Renaissance authors and artists thought there were many compatible perspectives, so that their writing and painting evince a "pluralist" approach in strict contrast to the monolithic mathematical perspective we imagine today. Theirs was more a collection of rational methods than a "rationalisation of sight", more a way of drawing objects than of setting them in an abstract "pictorial space". Most important... is the gradual recession of perspective as a mute method, a practical subset of geometry, and the growth of perspective as a metaphor, a powerful concept for ordering our perception and accounting for our subjectivity." -- Preface.
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