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Paperback, bend on cover, one water spot on back cover. Seller Inventory # 81409
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Title: Changing images of pictorial space: A ...
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
About this title
Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History of Spatial Illusion in Painting is a formalist history of the illusionist aspects of painting covering the two thousand years from Greco-Roman through modern art. It explains and demonstrates the Renaissance *system* of perspective in ways that have not previously been done in print.
For the first time in print this book explains that the term "Renaissance perspective" is not just a synonym for linear perspective, but it refers to a system of interlocked perspectives: atmospheric perspective and color perspective as well as the linear. It explains and demonstrates compositional climax and compositional congruency, as then Jackson Pollack's antithesis to these methods of compositional organization.
The book traces the use and evolution for two millinnea of major ideas in painting, such as the evolution of: dark and light, pictorial space, volume, spatial composition, lateral composition, and various treatments of the picture plane.
Though this book is formalist in focus, it is also somewhat postmodern in sympathy in the sense that it relates each change in the image of pictorial space to society's changes in priorities as evidenced by the science and philosophy of the relevant century. It thoroughly unravels Renaissance illusion down to its six principal elements, then carefully demonstrates that with each inversion in society's priorities in each century, came corresponding changes in the prioritizing of these six elements of illusion. This re-weighting of priorities in the illusionistic elements generated a new image of pictorial space for each century.
This book offers a history of art and its relationship with reason. It is the opposite of my next book, The Roots of Postmodernism, which offers a history of painting as sign and art's relationship with the irrational.
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