David Summers is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. He is author of three previous books, including Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism.
A valuable addition to a subject often treated in starkly
mathematical terms.--Isis
An insightful investigation of the intersections of painting,
optics, and perception. . . . The general thrust of the book, with
its emphasis on the historical and even human basis for
perspective, offers an important answer to critiques which treat it
as conventional or arbitrary.--Renaissance Quarterly
It is [Summer's] ability to see through the superficial
relationships that bind optics, perspective and Western painting to
the threads that weave them together into meaningful structures
that accounts for this book's great contribution to
scholarship.--The Burlington Magazine
Looks beyond the merely geometric aspects of sight to the
higher-order activities of vision and the role of memory. . . .
Recommended.--CHOICE
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