…one of the principal intellectual developments of the past century or so has been the supplanting of linear perspective by a multi-locational mode of perception. Among critics of Picasso this new mode is sometimes referred to as a “circulating point of view” in which a view from above may suddenly become a view from everywhere at once.
“Inside Blake and Hollywood,” in Sewanee Review, October, 1947, Vol. 55, No. 4, p 710
Year: 1947
Compiled by William Kuhns
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