The museum of illusions  -  Céline Delavaux

optical tricks in art

KORTE INHOUD

Traveling back and forth across generations and movements, this engrossing book looks at the myriad ways artists fool their audiences. The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity, when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery. In the centuries that followed, and continuing through contemporary times, artists from Van Eyck to Gerhard Richter have delighted in "tricking the eye." That practice has extended to outdoor spaces with the likes ...
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2013 Uitgever: Prestel Publishing 192 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  260x210 ISBN-10: 3791347772 ISBN-13: 9783791347776