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Perspective as Symbolic Form - by Erwin Panofsky (Paperback)

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  • Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century.
  • Author(s): Erwin Panofsky
  • 200 Pages
  • Art, History

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Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century.



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Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Finally available in English, this unrivaled example of Panofsky's early method places him within broader developments in theories of knowledge and cultural change.

Here, drawing on a massive body of learning that ranges over ancient philosophy, theology, science, and optics as well as the history of art, Panofsky produces a type of "archaeology" of Western representation that far surpasses the usual scope of art historical studies.

Perspective in Panofsky's hands becomes a central component of a Western "will to form," the expression of a schema linking the social, cognitive, psychological, and especially technical practices of a given culture into harmonious and integrated wholes. He demonstrates how the perceptual schema of each historical culture or epoch is unique and how each gives rise to a different but equally full vision of the world.

Panofsky articulates these distinct spatial systems, explicating their particular coherence and compatibility with the modes of knowledge, belief, and exchange that characterized the cultures in which they arose. Our own modernity, Panofsky shows, is inseparable from its peculiarly mathematical expression of the concept of the infinite, within a space that is both continuous and homogenous.



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"It is quite remarkable how much power remains in this classic 1924 essay ... now available in a clear, elegant translation and with an authoritative introduction by Christopher S. Wood."-- "Artforum"
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 200
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: History
Publisher: Zone Books
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Erwin Panofsky
Language: English
Street Date: January 31, 1997
TCIN: 83595347
UPC: 9780942299533
Item Number (DPCI): 247-80-4745
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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