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Catalogue and discussion of the possible drawing systems. Issues of efficient shape representation, invariants, secondary geometry. Linear drawing systems: parallel, linear perspective, divergent perspective. |
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PDF (6 per page, black and white with white background, better for printing) |
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Reading Project subject |
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Art and Representation, New Principles in the Analysis of
Pictures, John Willats, Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN:0691087377,
1997 The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, Martin Kemp, Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300052413, 1992 The Poetics of Perspective, James Elkins, Cornell Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801483794, 1996 Eyewitness: Perspective, Alison Cole, DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789455854, 2000 Optics, Painting and Photography, Maurice Henri Leonard Pirenne, Cambridge Univ Pr., 1970 Leonardo on Painting : An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci With a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career As an Artist, Martin Kemp , Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300045093, 1989 On Painting, Leon Battista Alberti, Penguin USA; ISBN: 0140433317, reprint, 1991. |
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