Perspective and Other Drawing Systems

by Fred Dubery, John Willats

art technique

Genres: Art

128 pages, Hardcover

Published January 27, 1983

Reviews

[scherzo♫ · Rating 4 out of 5]

David Marr, Representing Visual Information: A Computational Approach 1978

Jacques Riviere:

Perspective is as accidental a thing as lighting. It is the sign, not of a particular moment in time, but of a particular position in space. It indicates not the situation of the objects, but the situation of a spectator. ...
Hence, in the final analysis, perspective is also the sign of an instant, of the instant when a certain man is at a certain point. What is more, like lighting, it alters them--it dissimulates their true form. ...
Certainly reality shows us those objects mutilated in this way. But in reality, we can change position: a step to the right and a step to the left complete our vision. The knowledge we have of an object is, as I said before, a complex sum of perceptions. The plastic image does not move: it must be complete at first sight; therefore it must renounce perspective.

[Frightful_elk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent, marvelous look at different ways of representing, get your hands on it if you can!