Pierre Von-Ow

Pierre Von-Ow (1992, France) is a researcher in art history.              His work is mainly concerned with the intersections between arts and sciences in the Early Modern era. He is currently completing his dissertation at Yale University on a history of perspective in Great Britain and the British Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. En 2021, Pierre Von-Ow curated the virtual exhibition William Hogarth’s Topographies for the Lewis Walpole Library. Among his publications, he has recently co-edited an anthology of Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s writings on film (Propos filmiques, Paris, Macula, 2021) as well as a special issue of the journal Écrans on William Hogarth et le cinéma (Paris, Garnier, 2024).

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His residency project is devoted to writing two studies. The first is concerned with a tangible history of perspective. This project examines the various drawing machines, folding plates and other tactile devices developed for teaching geometry and the laws of perspective between the Quattrocento and the Enlightenment. The second study deals with the circulation of knowledge on anamorphosis between Italy, France, and Britain. His research attempts to determine how these “monstrous perspectives” were perceived in a British context marked by distrust of images.

Portrait © Pierre Von-Ow