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Zone Books, New York, Date: 1991. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form 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, it is an unrivaled example of Panofsky's early method that placed him within broader developments in theories of knowledge and cultural change. Here, drawing on a massive body of learning that ranges over Antique 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. Perspective 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. Yet the perceptual schema of each historical culture or epoch is different, and each gives rise to a different but equally full vision of the world. Panofsky articulates these different spatial systems, demonstrating 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 characterized by its peculiarly ...

New York: Zone Books, Date: 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Slim Octavo. 200 pp, stated First Edition, Wood's Introduction, Sections I - IV, 39 b&w Plates, notes, Plates. photo credits. 6.3" x 9.3" black cloth boards, in unclipped illustrated DJ, with acetate protector. Tight, clean, no wear. DJ with new bookstore price tag on fr flap. 1991. Zone Books ISBN 0942299523 9780942299526 [US]

NY: Zone Books, Date: 1991. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight and bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. 196pp., illus. 1991. Zone Books ISBN 0942299523 9780942299526 [US]

Zone Books 1991-11-14 Hardcover New Size: 9x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

ISBN10: 0942299523, ISBN13: 9780942299526, [publisher: Zone Books] Hardcover 200 Seiten; 9780942299526.3 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1
[Stuttgart, Germany] [Publication Year: 1991]