OBLIQUE DRAWING

For more than half a century, Erwin Panofksy's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of representation have much to tell us. Parallel projection can be found on classical Greek vases, in Pompeiian frescoes, in Byzantine mosaics/ it returned in works of the historic al avant-garde, and remains the dominant form of representation in China. In Oblique Drawing, Massimo Scolari investigates anti-pers pective v...[Llegir més]