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Art history

the argument that linear perspective is not natural vision but a historical construction expressing a particular world-view.

In art history, perspective as symbolic form refers to the argument that linear perspective is not natural vision but a historical construction expressing a particular world-view. This meaning comes from Panofsky (1991) in Perspective as symbolic form.[1]

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References

Panofsky, E. (1991). Perspective as symbolic form (C. S. Wood, Trans.). Zone Books. ISBN 9780942299526

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