Two second-order false-belief stories [ 23] were modelled on previous studies of perspective taking [ 18, 19].
And good, because funky, is the series of photographs titled "Study of Perspective".
His Study of Perspective series features just Ai's hand, flipping the middle finger to the Forbidden City.
The Museum of Modern Art owns a series of photographs of the Eiffel Tower, the White House, Tiananmen Square, and other places featuring his extended middle finger in the blurry foreground a profane travel album, of sorts, which he titled "Study of Perspective".
Ai Weiwei all but removes himself from his "Study of Perspective" series, appearing only as a rudely raised finger in the foreground of landscapes including the White House, the Eiffel Tower, and Tiananmen Square.
Images from Ai Weiwei's Study of Perspective, via MoMA.
The jewel of his collection may have come this week in the form a middle finger-filled snapshot with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, recreating Weiwei's seminal Study of Perspective.
In Weiwei's Study of Perspective, which was captured over the course of 20 years, the artist pointed his centermost finger at well-known landmarks across the world.
Now, digital artist Roc Herms has taken their relationship one step further by creating a virtual reinterpretation of Weiwei's Study of Perspective series in GTA V. .
The series that continues to garner attention, in part because it is continued with most all Ai's travels, is his Study of Perspective, begun in 1999.
