Past, Present, and Future of Visual and Optical Perspective (The Art and Science of Perspective) - Softcover

Radley, Dr Alan Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798316834426

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Perspective is far more than a drawing technique. It is one of the fundamental ways in which human beings understand space, vision, images, representation, and reality.

This Colour Edition of The Past, Present and Future of Visual and Optical Perspective presents a wide-ranging study of perspective from its historical foundations to its modern and future applications. Moving beyond the conventional account of linear perspective, Alan Stuart Radley explores perspective as a broad visual, optical, artistic, scientific, and technological field.

This book examines how perspective operates across art, geometry, optics, visual perception, photography, cinema, illusion, virtual reality, imaging systems, and emerging technologies. It shows how the principles of perspective are not confined to Renaissance art, but recur across many disciplines wherever space is represented, interpreted, projected, measured, distorted, or transformed.

The colour edition includes visual material, diagrams, and illustrations presented in full colour, making it especially suitable for readers who want to follow the visual distinctions, examples, and conceptual relationships in the clearest possible form.

The book is intended for artists, designers, architects, photographers, researchers, historians of art and science, students of visual culture, and anyone interested in the deeper structure of spatial representation.

At its core, this work argues that perspective should be understood as a larger science of visual and optical space: a field connecting past traditions, present technologies, and future forms of image-making.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798316834426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276