| Description | File containing a photocopied version of 'Seen from Nowhere,' a 1991 essay by Indian filmmaker Mani Kaul, presented at the seminar 'Concepts of Space: Ancient and Modern' in New Delhi. In this essay, Kaul critiques the Western concept of linear perspective that emerged during the Renaissance, specifically, the practice of converging parallel lines to a single vanishing point, which fixes the viewer's gaze to a defined position. |