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Organization of this lecture:
These are among the concepts, names, and works that you should
memorize from the text:
non-perspective
Mayan reliefs (an example of non-perspective)
anti-perspective
Cubist painting (an example of anti-perspective)
Cézanne, House of the Hanged Man = Suicide’s House
Meyer Schapiro
pre-perspective
Giovanni di Paolo (example of pre-prespective)
From the sections “A-Perspective:Where There Is No Space” and “A-Perspective: Ignoring Space”
a-perspective
diagram of the sefirot (example of a-perspective)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Girl Before a Mirror (example of a-perspective)
fondo
Tabula Peutingeriana
anamorphosis, plural anamorpohses (a special case of linear perspective—not in the text)
From the section on uninteresting things that can be said about representation:
Paul Delaroche
Peter Galison
Joel Snyder (from the unit on photography)
Leo Steinberg
Sherrie Levine
Jean Baudrillard
Erró
Michael Camille, “The Très riche heures in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
contingency
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat