Masters of deception
Subtitle: Escher, Dalí & the artists of optical illusion
By: Al Seckel ; foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Publisher: Sterling Pub. Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781402705779
Subjects: Optical illusions in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), composite portraits; title: Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), visual surprise; title: Sandro Del-Prete (1937- ), a change of perspective; title: Jos de Mey (1928- ), paradoxical worlds; title: M.C. Escher (1898-1972), master of mind and soul; title: Shigeo Fukuda (1932- ), visual scandal; title: Rob Gonsalves (1959- ), magic realism; title: Mathieu Hamaekers (1954- ), optical constructivism; title: Scott Kim (1955- ), ambigrams; title: Akiyoshi Kitaoka (1961- ), illusion op art; title: Ken Knowlton (1931- ), mosaic portraits; title: Guido Moretti (1947- ), transforming sculptures; title: Vik Muniz (1961- ), a change of medium; title: Octavio Ocampo (1943- ), metamorphic art; title: István Orosz (1951- ), anamorphoses; title: John Pugh (1957- ), trompe l'oeil; title: Oscar Reutersvärd (1915-2001), impossible figures; title: Roger Shepard (1929- ), mind sights; title: Dick Termes (1941- ), spherical worlds; title: Rex Whistler (1905-1944), inversions.