Out of perspective

Abstract

In this chapter, I focus on the depiction of visual perspective through scientific and artistic disciplines and its importance for relationships between humans and the world. Ways of thinking about vision as perspective are artificial and have been naturalised for centuries. Firstly, I examine perspective and its various uses in Western thought, and then I endeavour to establish links between method and criticism in which the object becomes a symbol of idealism. Finally, I suggest ways we can think beyond perspective.