Author: William Gawin Herdman
Publisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Treatise on the Curvilinear Perspective of Nature and Its Applicability to Art
Author: William Gawin Herdman
Publisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Poetics of Perspective
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723898
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the history of mathematics, James Elkins leads us to a new understanding of how we talk about pictures. Elkins provides an abundantly illustrated history of the theory and practice of perspective. Looking at key texts from the Renaissance to the present, he traces a fundamental historical change that took place in the way in which perspective was conceptualized; first a technique for constructing pictures, it slowly became a metaphor for subjectivity. That gradual transformation, he observes, has led to the rifts that today separate those who understand perspective as a historical or formal property of pictures from those who see it as a linguistic, cognitive, or epistemological metaphor. Elkins considers how the principal concepts of perspective have been rewritten in work by Erwin Panofsky, Hubert Damisch, Martin Jay, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and E. H. Gombrich. The Poetics of Perspective illustrates that perspective is an unusual kind of subject: it exists as a coherent idea, but no one discipline offers an adequate exposition of it. Rather than presenting perspective as a resonant metaphor for subjectivity, a painter's tool without meaning, a disused historical practice, or a model for vision and representation, Elkins proposes a comprehensive revaluation. The perspective he describes is at once a series of specific pictorial decisions and a powerful figure for our knowledge of the world.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723898
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the history of mathematics, James Elkins leads us to a new understanding of how we talk about pictures. Elkins provides an abundantly illustrated history of the theory and practice of perspective. Looking at key texts from the Renaissance to the present, he traces a fundamental historical change that took place in the way in which perspective was conceptualized; first a technique for constructing pictures, it slowly became a metaphor for subjectivity. That gradual transformation, he observes, has led to the rifts that today separate those who understand perspective as a historical or formal property of pictures from those who see it as a linguistic, cognitive, or epistemological metaphor. Elkins considers how the principal concepts of perspective have been rewritten in work by Erwin Panofsky, Hubert Damisch, Martin Jay, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and E. H. Gombrich. The Poetics of Perspective illustrates that perspective is an unusual kind of subject: it exists as a coherent idea, but no one discipline offers an adequate exposition of it. Rather than presenting perspective as a resonant metaphor for subjectivity, a painter's tool without meaning, a disused historical practice, or a model for vision and representation, Elkins proposes a comprehensive revaluation. The perspective he describes is at once a series of specific pictorial decisions and a powerful figure for our knowledge of the world.
The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's Nature as Addressed by Art, Etc
Author: George Whitefield SAMSON
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library
Author: Liverpool (England). Free Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Crayon
Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures, from Different Private Collections
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.