Art & geometry

Art & geometry: a study in space intuitions

by Ivins, William Mills

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This highly stimulating study observes many of the sometimes startling interrelationships between art and mathematics throughout history. It explains the differences between ancient and Renaissance painting and sculpture as well as the development of perspective and advances in projective geometry achieved by Nicholas of Cusa, Kepler, and Desargues.

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  • Full title :Art & geometry; : a study in space intuitions.

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This highly stimulating study observes many of the sometimes startling interrelationships between art and mathematics throughout history. It explains the differences between ancient and Renaissance painting and sculpture as well as the development of perspective and advances in projective geometry achieved by Nicholas of Cusa, Kepler, and Desargues.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1964

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Dover Publications
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1964

Notes

"T941."

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 113 pages : diagrams : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0486209415, 9780486209418
  • oclc:ocm00507685
  • LC Classification:N76
  • Dewey Decimal:742.09

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1-Eye and Hand -- Chapter 2-Greek Art -- Chapter 3-Greek Geometry -- Chapter 4-From the Greeks to the Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 5-Alberti -- Chapter 6-Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Perspective -- Chapter 7-Cusanus and Kepler -- Chapter 8-Desargues and Pascal -- Chapter 9-The Greeks Again, and What They Missed -- Chapter 10-The Synchronism Between Geometrical and other Ideas -- Conclusion.

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Subjects

Art grec Art, Greek Espace (Art) Géométrie -- Histoire geometry Geometry -- History Greek art History Mathematics -- History Perception spatiale Perspective Space (Art) space perception

Writers

Ivins, William Mills

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