EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Erwin Panofsky, Christian Culture, Vanishing Point
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** what is perspective as a symbolic form. Erwin panofsky was a 20th century german art historian. He wrote perspective as symbolic form in 1927. An extremely influential work in linear perspective studies. Panofsky argues that linear perspective functions as a symbolic form in that in the early 1400s in italy, artists and philosophers begin depicting and theorizing space and depth in new ways. Linear perspective is not just an artistic technique but a new paradigm for representing and seeing the world both literally and figuratively. Perspective in panofsky"s hands becomes a central component of a western will to form", the expression of a schema linkng 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.
