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VG/VG. Lilac boards with black spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 303 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result? "-website Contents include: Introduction: Describing a culture: Blickwechsel (shifting focus / exchanging glances)--1. Perspective as a question of images: paths between East and West. What is a symbolic form? ; Arab mathematics and Western art; Geometry and decorative art: the arabesque; the globalization of perspective; Blickwechsel: Orhan Pamuk and perspective as a "betrayal"--2. The taming of the eye: criticism of seeing in Islam. Religion and the prohibition of images; Images as a betrayal of the living creation; The Koran as scripture and script; Under the gaze of Allah: pictures as narrative; Blickwechsel: Pictures with a living gaze--3. Alhazen's measurement of light and the Arab invention of the camera obscura. Alhazen's book of optics, the Perspectiva; Distance from ancient visual culture; Pathways of light and properties of objects; Mathematics and geometry in Islamic art; Blickwechsel: Kepler rediscovers the camera obscura--4. Perception and knowledge: a theory of vision becomes a theory of pictures. Scholasticism and the conflict over perception and epistemology; Before perspective: the gaze in Giotto's painting; Pelacani's invention of mathematical space; Ghiberti's commentaries and Piero's mathematical art; Blickwechsel: Alhazen or Euclid? the option for Vitruvius--5. Brunelleschi measures the gaze: mathematical perspective and theater. Two inventors in Florence; Physical space: the architecture of the gaze; "Prospects" on the stage; Panoramas in Urbino; Blickwechsel: The geometry of the muqarnas--6. The subject in the picture: perspective as a symbolic form. Stealing an emblem: the eye as representative of the gaze; Nicholas of Cusa and the sovereignty of God's gaze; The subject as new Narcissus; The horizon and the view through a window; Blickwechsel: The mashrabiyya as a symbolic form--Conclusion: Comparing the gaze in different cultures.
Add this copy of Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science to cart. $66.04, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Belknap Press.
