There is nothing shockingly modern about the dynamic between artistic creation and technological innovation, be it an intellectual discovery like perspective or a new piece of hardware like the movie camera or the electric guitar.
Like perspective in a painting, or echo in a recording, the creative use of limitations helped us overcome gravity and imagine more than we could "see".
Realistic drawing takes a lot of practice, and also a lot of specific skills like perspective, contour drawing, shading, proportion measuring, and so on.
It plays out in the world of the Sultan's miniaturist painters, at a moment when Western innovations like perspective and individual style were perceived by Ottoman traditionalists as heresy — even murder-worthy.
The home scenes take place between large metal staircases on each side of the stage; the ball has a Piranesi-like perspective and a huge chandelier that revolves to become an abstract clock.
Moreover, it must accomplish both of those tasks without pretending that people are capable of stepping outside their own socially determined viewpoints to attain a God-like perspective.
You can't have a god-like perspective, looming over these suffering little people, because there's glass in the way".
"I was very keen on a particular aerial perspective, which, paired with the light coming from the Alta drone would give us a miniature-like perspective," notes Schoerner.
Are the discussions of class, access, whiteness and privilege taking place prior to sending young teachers into communities they may only know from a safari-like perspective?
Eventually, you ascend to a United Nations-like perspective as you try to unify an entire planet divided between rival civilizations.
In Study 4, people perceived past and future selves from a more observer-like perspective than present selves.
