The Origin of Perspective

by Hubert Damisch

John Goodman (Translator)

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In part an answer to Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form, this book applies a structuralist method to Western art. It examines whether perspective evolved as an approximation to normal perception or whether it was a symbolic form, one wary of discoursing about space.
  • ISBN10 0262540770
  • ISBN13 9780262540773
  • Publish Date 4 August 1995 (first published 4 January 1994)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 January 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 503
  • Language English