On right and wrong drawings

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Koenderink, Jan
van Doorn, Andrea
Pinna, Baingio
Pepperell, Robert
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Are pictorial renderings that deviate from linear perspective necessarily ‘wrong’? Are those in per- fect linear perspective necessarily ‘right’? Are wrong depictions in some sense ‘impossible’? Linear perspective is the art of the peep show, making sense only from one fixed position, whereas typical art works are constructed and used more like panel presentations, that leave the vantage point free. In the latter case the viewpoint is free; moreover, a change of viewpoint has only a minor effect on pictorial experience. This phenomenologically important difference can be made explicit and formal, by considering the effects of panning eye movements when perusing scenes, and of changes of viewpoint induced by translations with respect to pictorial surfaces. We present examples from formal geometry, photography, and the visual arts.
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Art & Perception;
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Koenderink, J., van Doorn, A., Pinna, B., & Pepperell, R. (2016). On right and wrong drawings, Art & Perception, 4(1-2), pp. 1-38.
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This article was published in Art and Perception in January 2016 (online), available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134913-00002043
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