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Author: T. Heaton Cooper
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 0486846814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis small and focused guide features full-page graphic representations with written descriptions on the facing page that discuss and offer direction on foreshortening and shadows in relation to perspective.
Author: T. Heaton Cooper
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 048684272X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis slim and focused guide to understanding and analyzing perspective in drawing was written by T. Heaton Cooper, a longtime instructor at the Cleveland School of Art. It consists of 50 examples: every left-hand page features a graphic representation of the written descriptions on the opposite page, providing an improved understanding of the concepts via visual examples. Discussions and directions on foreshortening and shadows in relation to perspective complement the illustrations. Students, art teachers, and artists wishing to improve their skills will find this book an ideal resource for study and reference. Its compact size will make it an easy addition to the paint box or sketch kit.
Author: Lyle Massey
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0271029803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies, Lyle Massey argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. Combining detailed historical studies with broad theoretical and philosophical investigations, this book challenges basic assumptions about the way early modern artists and theorists represented their relationship to the visible world and how they understood these representations. By analyzing technical feats such as anamorphosis (the perspectival distortion of an object to make it viewable only from a certain angle), drawing machines, and printed diagrams, each chapter highlights the moments when perspective theorists failed to unite a singular, ideal viewpoint with the artist&’s or viewer&’s viewpoint or were unsuccessful at conjoining fictive and lived space.Showing how these &“failures&” were subsequently incorporated rather than rejected by perspective theorists, the book presents an important reassessment of the standard view of Renaissance perspective. While many scholars have maintained that perspective rationalized the relationships among optics, space, and painting, Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies asserts instead that Renaissance and early modern theorists often revealed a disjunction between geometrical ideals and practical applications. In some cases, they not only identified but also exploited these discrepancies. This discussion of perspective shows that the painter&’s geometry did not always conform to the explicitly rational, Cartesian formula that so many have assumed, nor did it historically unfold according to a standard account of scientific development.
Author: Lorenzo Pericolo
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905375486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHMSBA is Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art.
Author: Joseph D'Amelio
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0486317307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVConcisely written text accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations together demonstrate vanishing points and eye level and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality and perspective distortion. /div
Author: Ernest W. Watson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0486137732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this thought-provoking practical guide, a noted artist and educator demonstrates that learning to violate the rules of perspective (profitably) is as important for the practicing artist as learning the principles of perspective themselves. Only in this way can students free themselves from the constraints of tradition and find their own imaginative paths. However, it is vital that students first have a solid grasp of classical perspective before they can think about adapting it creatively. In presenting the principles of perspective drawing, Mr. Watson devotes a chapter each to step-by-step discussions of such topics as the picture plane, foreshortening and convergence, the circle, the cone, three-point perspective, universal perspective, figures in perspective, and much more. To illustrate his points he offers expert analysis of the works of such leading illustrators as John Atherton, V. Bobri, R. M. Chapin, Jr., Albert Dorne, Robert Fawcett, Constantin Guys, W. N. Hudson, Carl Roberts, Ben Stahl, and Aldren A. Watson, as well as drawings by Pieter de Hooch and Paul Cézanne. The result is a ground-breaking study that artists, illustrators, and draftsmen will find invaluable in learning to create works with convincing perspective. Ernest W. Watson taught at Pratt Institute for over 20 years, co-founded and served as editor-in-chief of the magazine American Artist, and co-founded the prestigious art publishing house of Watson-Guptill.
Author: William Stern
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 578
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006-12-31
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0226309703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image. Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their "sophisticated deceit," asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects. Offering an original theory of perspective's impact on pictorial representation, the act of looking, and the understanding of truth in painting, Grootenboer shows how these paintings both question the status of representation and explore the limits and credibility of perception. “An elegant and honourable synthesis.”—Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement
Author: Hans Belting
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780674050044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?
Author: Moshe Barasch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1135199795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
