The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the ...
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The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings (as in anamorphosis).
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Add this copy of (a)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early to cart. $26.50, good condition, Sold by Eastburn Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albany, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Purdue University Press.
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Good in good + jacket. Book Good hardcover in Good+ jacket. 2001. MILD TO MODERATE AMOUNT OF UNDERLINING/NOTATIONS to pages. Light edge wear. Binding solid. Jacket w/short tears and edge wear. Clean/solid. 182 pp.
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FINE in Very Good jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author: 'To Gina with fondness and admiration--I like my Medievalists ZESTY! [Signed] David. ' 182pp. Gray cloth. Clean, sharp copy. DJ with a short tear at rear head.
Add this copy of (a)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early to cart. $54.01, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Purdue University Press.
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