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| | Amazon.com: Perspective as Symbolic Form: Books: Erwin Panofsky,Christopher S. Wood (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | 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 mathematical expression of the concept of the infinite, within a space that is necessarily both continuous and homogeneous. |
 | | Panofsky's book on perspective, Perspective as Symbolic Form, is a short book about the development of perspective from ancient perspective to the full, abstract space of an Alberti. |
| www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Perspective-Symbolic-Form-Erwin-Panofsky/dp/0942299531 (1477 words) |
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