Perspective in Perspective

List of contents

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.

About the author

Lawrence Wright

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wright, Lawrence Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138220355
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22035-5
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Psychology Library Editions: Perception; Psychology Library Editions: Perception
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Perception, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology