Description
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Published 1969. Hardcover, 96 pp.; 21 x 21 cm; illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and reproductions, and 29 instructional plates of perspective drawings by Karin Dekoj.
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In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Gray textured paper over boards, lettered in silver on spine; mild shelf and edge wear, with some fading and toning to edges and spine. Binding tight. Foxing to endpapers, half-title and final leaves, and mild foxing to edges of text block; pages mildly toned with occasional light spotting, otherwise unmarked. Red dust jacket with a photograph, a Durer woodcut of a perspective drawing device, and an Op art square shows a 1/4 by 1 1/2 in. chip along top edge near spine, a few smaller nicks, chips and tears, and creasing to edges; mild to moderate overall shelf wear, with some color loss, toning and fading along edges and spine. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. An introductory handbook on perspective by an art educator at the Philadelphia College of Art and the University of Pennsylvania. Three chapters survey perspective in art and design, with examples from Egyptian wall painting and Durer to Hogarth's "False Perspective," Caillebotte, Klee, Escher, and 1960s Op art and corporate graphics for Bausch & Lomb and Otis Elevator. Three more chapters give step-by-step instruction in 29 plates: the picture plane, one-, two- and three-point perspective, measure points, isometric drawing, ellipses and arches, cast shadows, and reflections. Written for high school and art students, teachers, and designers. Contents: Perspective and the Past; Visual Clues; Color and Space; Basic Linear Construction; Circles and Arches; Shadows and Reflections; Glossary; Bibliography.