Hubert Damisch's work of critical theory "The Origin of Perspective," translated from the French by John Goodman. "In part a response to Panofsky's 'Perspective as Symbolic Form,' 'The Origin of Perspective' is much more. In France it is considered one of the most important works of art history to have appeared in the last twenty years. With the exception of Michel Foucault's analysis of 'Las Meninas,' it is perhaps the first time a structuralist method such as the one developed by Claude Lévi-Strauss in 'The Way of the Masks' has been thouroughly and convincingly applied to Western Art." --publishers statement.