Colloque : « Histories of Perspectives », Paris, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art/Centre Pompidou, 17-18 octobre 2024
Few essays in art history have garnered the enduring reputation of Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form, which continues to anchor and polarize studies on space and its representation. First published in 1927 in the Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg, the text originated as a lecture delivered for the 1924-1925 academic program of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW) in Hamburg. To mark the lecture’s centenary, this international symposium seeks to expand our understanding of perspective—chronologically, geographically,...