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(A)wry Views

Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque

David R Castillo author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Purdue University Press

Published:30th Apr '01

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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).

ISBN: 9781557532275

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 458g

182 pages