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Oblique Drawing: A History Of Anti PerspectiveStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionFor more than half a century, Erwin Panofksy's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of representation have much to tell us. Parallel projection can be found on classical Greek vases, in Pompeiian frescoes, in Byzantine mosaics; it returned in works of the historical avant-garde, and remains the dominant form of representation in China. In Oblique Drawing, Massimo Scolari investigates "anti-perspective" visual representation over two thousand years, finding in the course of his investigation that visual and conceptual representations are manifestations of the ideological and philosophical orientations of different cultures. Images prove to be not just a form of art but a form of thought, a projection of a way of life. Scolari's generously illustrated studies show that illusionistic perspective is not the only, or even the best, representation of objects in history; parallel projection, for example, preserves in scale the actual measurements of objects it represents, avoiding the distortions of one-point perspective. Author descriptionMassimo Scolari is a prominent architectural historian and an artist, writer, and teacher. Currently Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, he has taught at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Cornell University, Cooper Union, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, Technische Universitat Wien, and other institutions. James S. Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of books on Michelangelo's architecture, Palladio, and the villa. He is the winner of the Balzan Prize 2001 in the category of history of architecture, which includes town planning and landscape design presented by the International Balzan Foundation. |