Oblique Drawing

A History of Anti-Perspective

Massimo Scolari, James S. Ackerman, Jenny Condie Palandri , Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
30 January 2015

Art & Architecture; History of architecture

Series: Writing Architecture

A challenge to the hegemony of perspective- investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand years.

For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky'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 historical avant-garde, and remains the dominant form of representation in China. In Oblique Drawing, 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 a form of thought, a projection of a way of life.

Scolari's generously illustrated studies show that illusionistic perspective is not the only, or even the best, representation of objects in history; parallel projection, for example, preserves in scale the actual measurements of objects it represents, avoiding the distortions of one-point perspective. Scolari analyzes the use of nonperspectival representations in pre-Renaissance images of machines and military hardware, architectural models and drawings, and illustrations of geometrical solids. He challenges Panofsky's theory of Pompeiian perspective and explains the difficulties encountered by the Chinese when they viewed Jesuit missionaries' perspectival religious images.

Scolari vividly demonstrates the diversity of representational forms devised through the centuries, and shows how each one reveals something that is lacking in the others.

By: Massimo Scolari
Introduction by: James S. Ackerman
Translated by: Jenny Condie Palandri
Series edited by: Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780262527613
ISBN 10: 0262527618
Series: Writing Architecture
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 30 January 2015
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Massimo Scolari is a prominent architectural historian. He is also an editor, designer, artist, and pilot. He has taught at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV), Cornell University, Cooper Union, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), Technische Universitat Vienna, Harvard University, and Yale University. James S. Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of books on Michelangelo's architecture, Palladio, and the villa. He is the winner of the Balzan Prize 2001 in the category of history of architecture, which includes town planning and landscape design presented by the International Balzan Foundation.

Reviews for Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective

An erudite and excellently illustrated book. -Arquitectura Viva ...[A]n excellent resource for artists, architects, and historians. And, finally, what Oblique Perspective does achieve is to underscore the need for a more comprehensive study, or perhaps even many studies. -Nancy Goldring, Architect's Newspaper * Reviews * An erudite and excellently illustrated book. -Arquitectura Viva * Reviews *