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15%OFFLyle Massey - Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective - 9780271029801 - V9780271029801
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Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective

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Description for Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective Hardback. Argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. This book challenges basic assumptions about the way early modern artists and theorists represented their relationship to the visible world. Num Pages: 184 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AGZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.

In Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies, Lyle Massey argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. Combining detailed historical studies with broad theoretical and philosophical investigations, this book challenges basic assumptions about the way early modern artists and theorists represented their relationship to the visible world and how they understood these representations. By analyzing technical feats such as anamorphosis (the perspectival distortion of an object to make it viewable only from a certain angle), drawing machines, and printed diagrams, each chapter highlights ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271029801
SKU
V9780271029801
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About Lyle Massey
Lyle Massey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal. She is the editor of The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished, Studies in the History of Art Series, vol. 59 (2003).

Reviews for Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective
“This is a strong, well-articulated argument for the place of embodiment and bodily experience in Renaissance perspective. Lyle Massey is a very unusual scholar, well informed about phenomenological, Lacanian, and structuralist readings of perspective, but just as conversant with the history of geometry and its connections to Enlightenment philosophy. This book is a tonic, just what the field needs to ... Read more

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