What is Islamic Art

awkward angle, the viewer enjoys her nudity and the view outside.

Ignoring all such pleasures, the artist is reduced to the seeing eye and the

drawing hand. Although Jonathan Crary imputes to the nineteenth century

Figure 30Albrecht Dürer,Draughtsman Doing Perspectival Drawing of a Lute, print,

1525. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. 528– 2

Figure 31Albrecht Dürer,Draughtsman Executing a Perspective Drawing of a Woman,

fromDe Symmetria partium humanorum corporum,woodcut,c.1600. Metropolitan

Museum of Art, 17.37.314

310 Perspectives on Perspective