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Seminal Notions The Idea and Practice of Perspective

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  • ABOUT Jonathan Crary

    Jonathan Crary is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. He has taught full-time at Columbia since 1989, and has also been a visiting professor at Princeton and Harvard. He is the author of contemporary art and culture publications, including Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture. Crary is the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Profile

  • ABOUT Ryan Oakes

    In 2004, artistic innovator Ryan Oakes and his twin brother Trevor made a startling discovery of how to better hand-render perspectival images on the inner surface of a sphere using only binocular vision, paper, and pen. These New York City­based visual artists' work is characterized by an in-depth investigation of light, vision, and the interplay between the visual cortex and the human retina. They are graduates of The Cooper Union School of Art.

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  • ABOUT Trevor Oakes

    In 2004, artistic innovator Trevor Oakes and his twin brother Ryan made a startling discovery of how to better hand-render perspectival images on the inner surface of a sphere using only binocular vision, paper, and pen. These New York City-based visual artists' work is characterized by an in-depth investigation of light, vision, and the interplay between the visual cortex and the human retina. They are graduates of the Cooper Union School of Art.

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  • ABOUT Lawrence Weschler

    Lawrence “Ren” Weschler, Emeritus Artistic Director, joined the staff in January 2006. He was a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine for twenty years, shuttling between political tragedies and cultural comedies, and is the author of over a dozen books, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder for which he was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award, and Everything that Rises; A Book of Convergences for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 2007.

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Recorded on November 9, 2008.

Surely one of the singular achievements of Renaissance and post-Renaissance Western art and technology was the conquest, articulation, and deployment of notions of visual perspective. How has perspective continued to evolve? 

Panelists Jonathan Crary, Ryan Oakes, and Trevor Oakes discuss the idea of perspective and the multiple ways of viewing the physical world. They explain perspective in artworks, both recent and historical, as well as a new way of drawing.  Lawrence Weschler moderates.

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Perception, Drawing, Camera Obscura, Illusion, Jonathan Crary, Ryan Oakes, Trevor Oakes, twins, Lawrence Weschler, Renaissance

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