Perspective in Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138220409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 402 str.

Lawrence Wright

Opis

Originally published in 1983, this book is about the way we see things – or think we do, which is by no means the same – and about the ways in which we have tried to reproduce that visual concept in diagrams, pictures, photographs, films and television.

Spis treści

Preface.  1. The Object, the Eye and the Picture  2. A Door is Opened  3. A Truly Marvellous Feat  4. Leonardo’s Window  5. Perspective Goes North  6. Grand Illusions  7. Textbooks and Tools  8. Vedute e Cappricci  9. Topographers  10. Nineteenth-century Perspectors  11. Twentieth-century Perspectors  12. Architecture in Natural Perspective  13. Predicting Buildings  14. Artful Aids  15. Landscape in Perspective  16. Perspective Out of Favour  17. Perspective, Optics and Photography  18. Motion Perspective.  Appendix A: Alternatives to Perspective.  Appendix B: Perspective on the Drawing Board.  Appendix C: Shades and Shadows.  Appendix D: Computer-drawn Perspective.  Appendix E: Spherical Perspective.  Bibliography.  Illustrations: Sources and Acknowledgements.  Index.

O autorze

Lawrence Wright