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anamorphosisDrawing or painting technique that gives a distorted image of the subject when seen from the usual viewpoint, but when viewed from a particular angle or reflected in a curved mirror shows it in true proportion. Its purpose is to amuse or mystify. It was a curious by-product of the discovery of perspective in the 14th–15th century and was regarded as a display of technical virtuosity. The first examples appear in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. |
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Working on two flattened
cardboard boxes, the artist has drawn, respectively, an anamorphosis of
Paolo Uccello's Perspective Study of a Chalice, 1430, and a
perspective study of a hydraulic wheel conceived by Leonardo da Vinci in
one of his codices. The Athens-based
firm of Anamorphosis and New York artist Eva Rothschild did just that in
their stylized Greek theatre, with its cascade of ice shards spilling
over compressed snow bleachers, and curved transparent walls that
suggest a stage set. Anamorphosis is the shaping metaphor and critical strategy for
David Castillo's new book on "mutiperspectival forms of
discourse" (2) in some representative literary texts of early
modern Spain. |
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