Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon

[Robin Landseadel]

. . . note how the cover of Inherent Vice—self consciously "painterly"  
in a cheap po-mo way, like Elvis rendered in oil on velvet—is a  
"digital" painting, not a drop of paint to view, just the cybernetic  
smoke and mirrors of pixels and digits.

You looking at this missive through the "Sportello" of the digital age.

On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:17 PM, John Carvill wrote:

> 2009/11/16 Dave Monroe
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ... a framed perspective around the time of the camera obscura. A  
>>> framed perspective sounds like a metaphor for an artist's vision  
>>> at one level, yes?
>>
>> Prospettografi descritti dal Durer. Sportello
>
> Yep, read your post on that at the time, and today.
>
> A nice picture of a sportello here:
>
> http://www.imss.fi.it/masaccio/imodelli.html
>
> Scroll down to 'Albrecht Dürer, Lo sportello'.
>
> If you click on the picture, it brings up a much better image in a
> pop-up window.