Perspective as Symbolic Form (Zone Books)

Very informative & provides technical aspects of various angles of perspectives.

Many consider this book and essential reading in our history. It is very outdated. We have known for a long time that vision is a learned process and culturally conditioned. So, the invention of perspective brought to Western civilization one specific way of seeing, but not the only one. E. H. Gombrich's research on visual perception in better, but even that reiterates what anthropology in science already knew.

A classic essay on the relation of perspective geometry to philosophical and art-historical issues of its day, translated from German.

There's nothing not to like about it, when the book arrived, it looked brand new even down the how it smelled. Glad I bought it.

excellent~

impeccable

One of the most interesting problems we had in our drawing class was regarding linear perspective and I picked up this book hoping that it would go in detail about perspective in historical and cultural context and it did!This book is written by and for educated man. The translation is great and I finished the book in one reading because it was so compelling. It is above and beyond the mere mechanics of horizon lines and vanishing points.The end notes are great too.A must read for all art lovers.

A comprehensive review of the thought behind mathematical perspective and how it differs from our empirical experience. Explains how the concept of the infinate has forever altered the way in which we represent space in pictures. Short essay with extensive end notes.

Excellent.