{"product_id":"perspective-as-symbolic-form-erwin-panofsky-9780942299533","title":"Perspective as Symbolic Form","description":"\u003cp\u003eErwin Panofsky's \u003ci\u003ePerspective as Symbolic Form\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Finally available in English, this unrivaled example of Panofsky's early method places him within broader developments in theories of knowledge and cultural change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, drawing on a massive body of learning that ranges over ancient philosophy, theology, science, and optics as well as the history of art, Panofsky produces a type of \"archaeology\" of Western representation that far surpasses the usual scope of art historical studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerspective in Panofsky's hands becomes a central component of a Western \"will to form,\" the expression of a schema linking the social, cognitive, psychological, and especially technical practices of a given culture into harmonious and integrated wholes. He demonstrates how the perceptual schema of each historical culture or epoch is unique and how each gives rise to a different but equally full vision of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePanofsky articulates these distinct spatial systems, explicating their particular coherence and compatibility with the modes of knowledge, belief, and exchange that characterized the cultures in which they arose. Our own modernity, Panofsky shows, is inseparable from its peculiarly mathematical expression of the concept of the infinite, within a space that is both continuous and homogenous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erwin Panofsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0942299531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780942299533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Erwin Panofsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054984950015,"sku":"9780942299533","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38b8158c-081e-47be-b3ef-b1c12990da50.jpg?v=1685033119","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perspective-as-symbolic-form-erwin-panofsky-9780942299533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}