Perspective for Artists

Perspective for Artists
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9780486134543
ISBN-13 : 0486134547
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Perspective for Artists by : Rex Vicat Cole

Depth, perspective of sky and sea, shadows, much more, not usually covered. 391 diagrams, 81 reproductions of drawings and paintings.

The Theory and Practice of Perspective

The Theory and Practice of Perspective
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Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000112977107
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Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Theory and Practice of Perspective by : George Adolphus Storey

The Poetics of Perspective

The Poetics of Perspective
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9781501723896
ISBN-13 : 1501723898
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Perspective by : James Elkins

Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the history of mathematics, James Elkins leads us to a new understanding of how we talk about pictures. Elkins provides an abundantly illustrated history of the theory and practice of perspective. Looking at key texts from the Renaissance to the present, he traces a fundamental historical change that took place in the way in which perspective was conceptualized; first a technique for constructing pictures, it slowly became a metaphor for subjectivity. That gradual transformation, he observes, has led to the rifts that today separate those who understand perspective as a historical or formal property of pictures from those who see it as a linguistic, cognitive, or epistemological metaphor. Elkins considers how the principal concepts of perspective have been rewritten in work by Erwin Panofsky, Hubert Damisch, Martin Jay, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and E. H. Gombrich. The Poetics of Perspective illustrates that perspective is an unusual kind of subject: it exists as a coherent idea, but no one discipline offers an adequate exposition of it. Rather than presenting perspective as a resonant metaphor for subjectivity, a painter's tool without meaning, a disused historical practice, or a model for vision and representation, Elkins proposes a comprehensive revaluation. The perspective he describes is at once a series of specific pictorial decisions and a powerful figure for our knowledge of the world.

Photography Theory in Historical Perspective

Photography Theory in Historical Perspective
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781405191616
ISBN-13 : 1405191619
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Photography Theory in Historical Perspective by : Hilde Van Gelder

Photography Theory in Historical Perspective: Case Studies from Contemporary Art aims to contribute to the understanding of the multifaceted and complex character of the photographic medium by dealing with various case studies selected from photographic practices in contemporary art, discussed in the context of views and theories of photography from its inception. uses case studies to explain photographic practices in contemporary art and place them in the context of theory presents current debates on theory of photography through comparisons to research of other visual media applicable to vernacular and documentary photography as well as art photography

Perspective as Practice

Perspective as Practice
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Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 2503581072
ISBN-13 : 9782503581071
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Perspective as Practice by : Sven Dupré

This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The point of departure of this book is the recognition of the polysemy of perspective, that is, the plurality of meanings of perspective. To bring forward the polysemy of perspective, this book explores the history of perspectiva in terms of practices, a conglomerate of material, social, literary and reproductive practices, through which knowledge claims in perspective were produced, promoted, legitimated and circulated in and through a variety of sites and institutions. The ways optical knowledge was used by different groups in different places (such as the university classroom, the anatomist's dissection table, the goldsmith's workshop, and the astronomer's observatory) defined the meanings of Renaissance perspective. As this period was characterized by widespread 'optical literacy', perspective was defined in different ways in different places and sites by various groups of practitioners. Most interestingly, sites such as the theatre, the instrument maker's workshop and the courtly garden were home to practices of perspective which have remained on the margin, or even completely invisible, in the historiographies of optics and perspective. The book also brings out the differences between codifications of perspectiva and practice. There were a variety of non-Albertian constructions to create the illusion of space, and other types of optical knowledge were as important to artists as the geometry of perspective.

The Practice of Perspective

The Practice of Perspective
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822009494451
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Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Practice of Perspective by : Jean Dubreuil

Public Administration in Perspective

Public Administration in Perspective
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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780765628633
ISBN-13 : 0765628635
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Public Administration in Perspective by : David John Farmer

Throughout its history, public administration has used a number of different perspectives for analyzing the discipline's theory and practice, and both mainstream and alternative lenses have produced valuable insights and prescriptions. At the same time, an individual way of looking at PA can be misleading. Alone, a solitary lens can miss critical aspects and often gives only part of the picture. Public Administration in Perspective has been specifically crafted to give new life to public administration theory and practice by helping readers view the discipline through a variety of perspectives. Designed for the capstone course in public administration programs, as well as a fresh approach for courses in PA theory and organizational theory, this unique book provides a culminating experience--bringing together what has been learned in previous MPA courses without simply rehashing old content. It offers a comprehensive guide to eleven major approaches to PA, and synthesizes them to deepen our understanding of the discipline. Each chapter in Part I describes the key features of the selected perspective--history, content, and proponents--and discusses the strengths and weaknesses related to PA theory and practice. Part II synthesizes the various perpectives, with specific implications for PA management and practice. Part III concludes with a complete overview, identifying ways in which readers can think more creatively and productively about PA, putting the perspectives themselves into perspective.

A Compleat Treatise on Perspective

A Compleat Treatise on Perspective
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10942241
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Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis A Compleat Treatise on Perspective by : Thomas Malton

Brook Taylor’s Work on Linear Perspective

Brook Taylor’s Work on Linear Perspective
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 0387974865
ISBN-13 : 9780387974866
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Brook Taylor’s Work on Linear Perspective by : Kirsti Andersen

A Study of Taylors Role in the History of Perspective Geometry. Including Facsimiles of Taylors̀ Two Books on Perspective.