Abstract
This article focuses on the importance of the foundation matrix for group analysis by considering shifts in the visual culture of the Western world since the beginning of the 20th century. The author explores the influence that these shifts have had on the development and practice of group analysis; in particular; by linking the development of group analysis with the move away from the single fixed-point perspective style of painting which dominated Western visual culture starting from the Renaissance until the advent of Cubism.
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