{"product_id":"oblique-drawing-9780262527613","title":"Oblique Drawing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA challenge to the hegemony of perspective: investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky''s \u003ci\u003ePerspective as Symbolic Form\u003c\/i\u003e 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 historical avant-garde, and remains the dominant form of representation in China. In \u003ci\u003eOblique Drawing\u003c\/i\u003e, Massimo Scolari investigates “anti-perspective” visual representation over two thousand years, finding in the course of his investigation that visual and conceptual representations are manifestations of the ideological and philosophical orientations of different cultures. Images prove to be not just a form of art but\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524682228055,"sku":"9780262527613","price":41.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262527613.jpg?v=1731857731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oblique-drawing-9780262527613","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}