Awry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque

by David R. Castillo

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557532273
• ISBN13: 9781557532275
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"