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Perspective in Perspective (Paperback)
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Perspective in Perspective (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Perception
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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. Whatever the
medium, if any degree of realism is intended, some use of
perspective is inevitable, and some understanding of it can aid the
appreciation of the result. But here the technicalities of
perspective geometry are treated as far as possible
non-technically, by a common-sense approach. Students, would-be
artists or architects, are warned in the Preface that they will
travel second-class in the author's train of thought (the 'general
reader' coming first), but they may well find the journey
worthwhile in that it provides a background to a subsequent, more
detailed studies. Lawrence Wright shows that every form of
perspective representation has some innate falsity, but that most
such forms offer an adequate makeshift; that rules of geometry
often need to be bent; that labour-saving dodges and shortcuts
exist. As he says, perspective drawing, like politics, is an art of
the possible. In reading this book, beginners may find it all
simpler than they had supposed, though the established expert may
in some interesting respects find just the opposite. The general
reader may thereafter find himself seeing things - and
representations of them - in a new light.
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