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The development of linear perspective in the 15th century
represented a radical transformation in the European's sense of the
world, the body and the self. Robert Romanyshyn's latest book
examines the claim that the development of linear perspective
vision was and is indispensable to the emergence of our
technological world. It does so by telling the story of how an
artistic technique has become a cultural habit of mind.
Contents: Prologue: Address to the reader 1. Lift-off: we are all astronauts 2. The Window and the Camera 3. Self as spectator 4. Body as specimen 5. The abandoned body and its shadows 6. World as spectacle 7. Re-entry: paths of return
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