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Panofsky, cassirer, and perspective as symbolic form. Although panofskys perspective as symbolic form purports to be a history of the development of single point perspective construction and the various conceptions of space implied by that history, it is in fact structured around a basic binary opposition between two strikingly different sorts of perspective. With the exception of michel foucaults analysis of las meninas, it is perhaps the first time a structuralist method such as the one developed by claude lestrauss in the. Panofsky borrowed the term symbolic form from the german neokantian. In part a response to panofsky s perspective as symbolic form, the origin of perspective is much more. It is interesting though that despite the central role that this work has been given, no one has been able to provide an adequate account of what panofsky meant by claiming that perspective is a.
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