Imperial Illusions. Kristina Kleutghen
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Perception, Cognition, and Perspectival Illusionism
Although the illustrations are the most important part of the treatise, the prefaces establish how Nian contextualized his discussion of illusionistic painting methods by focusing on their effects. By not consistently linking Nian’s statements in the prefaces with what he does in the illustrations, the previous translations have privileged words over images in a way that contradicts Nian’s own methodology. Therefore, in light of the information found in the illustrations, Nian’s two distinctly different prefaces to The Study of Vision deserve a fresh translation.75
In the 1729 preface, Nian wrote,
For many years I have focused my heart and mind on the study of vision. While attending to my post, I thought about it exhaustively, all without achieving even a glimmer
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