"retrospective vision" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an attempt to look at or consider something with the wisdom and understanding of experience. For example: "With the benefit of retrospective vision, it's clear that reorganizing the company was the right decision."
This retrospective vision soon infects the reading process itself.
What keeps the reader pushing on through "Civilization" is the author's knack for making long-ago events as vivid and visceral as the evening news, for weaving anecdotes and small telling details together with a wide-angled retrospective vision.
Instead, Mr. Klein -- much like David Maraniss, who turned a series of newspaper articles on candidate Clinton into two books about the president -- simply recycles old observations about the man from Hope, sometimes respinning or re-evaluating earlier assessments with retrospective vision.
From an archive that includes everyone from Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the Brown Berets to Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, and N.W.A., Rodriguez has partnered with author Josh Kun to publish his first career retrospective Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez (Hat & Beard Press, April 10).
On the occasion of the release of Varda's magnificent, deeply moving autobiographical film "The Beaches of Agnès," they're doing a mini-retrospective, "Vardian Vision," featuring many of the films that she excerpts and refers to.
"David Bowie: Sound and Vision," a retrospective of his career, with music videos and rare film of performances, documentaries and interviews; through Nov. 1.
"David Bowie: Sound and Vision," a retrospective of the singer's career, with music videos and rare film of performances, documentaries and interviews; through Sept. 15.
"David Bowie: Sound and Vision," a retrospective of the singer's career, with music videos and rare footage of performances, documentaries and interviews; through Sept. 29.
This week, the Museum of Television and Radio, in New York and Los Angeles, opened "Sound + Vision," a retrospective of Mr. Bowie on video that continues through Sept. 15.
"Jim is an incredibly loyal man, to his actors and writers and also to his institutional vision for retrospective work at Signature, and his spirit was one I've loved being around," said Mr. Norton, who, less than three years after "Fragments," was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his feature film debut in "Primal Fear".
Another game from their Brooklyn Museum retrospective is called, Tunnel Vision Tag, and features "the FAILE dog running through the subways trying to escape BAST Ghosts while tagging enough spots to earn a MetroCard for escape via a subway car".
