Pictures of Perspective: Theory or Therapy?

In Margaret Atherton Heiko Hecht & Robert Schwartz (eds.), Looking into Pictures (2003)
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From a perceptual psychology and philosophy conference on linear perspective: points out standard fallacies about perspective, then challenges psychology's and philosophy's widespread assumption that a satisfactory understanding of depiction in any medium can be reached via theories of spatial--or any other kind of--visual perception.

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