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‘‘In this provocative study James Hyde disrupts and then reintroduces us to one of our most frequently used terms in visual art: space. Beginning in the 13th century Hyde traces the undiscovered history of space as a pictorial as well as phenomenological construction. Every page of this brilliant investigation rewards the reader and viewer.’’ -- Tom Huhn * Professor of Art History, School of Visual Arts, USA * ‘‘A bracing new history of painting that radically reframes picture-making’s central motif, the illusion of space. Artist and writer Hyde chronicles an astonishing tale that begins in the world before space was ‘invented’ and concludes today, after the space age. Travel through philosophy, mathematics, physics and art, and change how you picture the world.’’ -- Josiah McElheny * Artist And Sculptor, USA * ‘‘Hyde has written a gripping, revelatory critical history of the concept of pictorial space in painting, a concept, we learn, that was unknown to the painters and theorists of the Renaissance and Baroque—it emerged only in the mid-19th century. His book should have radical consequences for how we look at, speak and write about the art of the past and the present.’’ -- Charles W. Haxthausen * Robert Sterling Clark Professor Of Art History, Emeritus, Williams College, USA *

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James Hyde is a a studio artist and abstract painter.

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