Lyle Massey

Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies

Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

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 the moments when perspective theorists failed to unite a singular, ideal viewpoint with the artists or viewers viewpoint or were unsuccessful at conjoining fictive and lived space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 186mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780271029801
• ISBN-10: 0271029803
• Artikelnr.: 22935509

Autorenporträt

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 She is the editor of The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished, Studies in the History of Art Series, vol. 59 (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

"Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Corporealizing the Infinite
2Descartes¿s Point of View
3Straightening Out Anamorphosis
4The Body and Its Devices
Conclusion: Perspective Split in Two
Notes
Bibliography
Index