The Origin of Perspective

Damisch, Hubert. Translated by John Goodman.

ISBN 10: 0262540770 / ISBN 13: 9780262540773

Edité par The MIT Press, 1995. xxiv, 477pp. Illustrated in black and white., 1995

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• Titre: The Origin of Perspective
• Éditeur: The MIT Press, 1995. xxiv, 477pp. Illustrated in black and white.
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0262540770
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262540773
• Reliure: Couverture souple

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Synopsis

In part a response to Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form, The Origin of Perspective is much more. In France it is considered one of the most important works of art history to have appeared in the last twenty years. With the exception of Michel Foucault's analysis of Las Meninas, it is perhaps the first time a structuralist method such as the one developed by Claude Lé©-Strauss in The Way of the Masks has been thoroughly and convincingly applied to Western art. The task Damisch has set for himself is to refute both the positivist critics, whose approach makes up the bulk of perspective studies and is based on a complete repression of Panofsky's early work, and the current pseudo-avant-gardist position (whether in the field of cinema studies or in literary criticism), which tends to disregard facts and theoretical analysis. Damisch argues that if a theoretical analysis of perspective is possible, using all the tools of structuralist semiotics, it is only possible in the context of a close look at its appearance in history, beginning with the details of the "invention" of perspective.

À propos de l?auteur

Hubert Damisch is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he has held posts at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington. He is the author of The Origin of Perspective, The Judgment of Paris, Skyline: The Narcissistic City, and A Theory of Cloud: Toward a History of Painting.