| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 386 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Vision, Illusion and Perception,
2365-7480 ;
Volume 1
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Vision, illusion, and perception ; v. 1.
2365-7472
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-361) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Perspective Paradoxes ; Anamorphoses -- 3. Trompe l'OEil -- 4. Mosaic and Tiling ; Mosaics ; Tiling -- 5. Impossible Figures -- 6. Surrealism -- 7. Geometrical Optical Illusions ; Orientation Illusions ; Size Illusions ; Size and Orientation Illusions ; Subjective Contours -- 8. Ambiguity -- 9. Hidden Images -- 10. Word and Image -- 11. Colour -- 12. Contrast -- 13. Faces ; Selfies -- 14. Scintillation and Apparent Motion ; Motion -- 15. Moiré and Motion ; Moving Moirés ; Moiré Stereo -- 16. Stereoscopic Vision ; Stereophotography ; Binocular Rivalry ; Wallpaper Illusion ; Autostereograms. |
| Summary |
"We delight in using our eyes, particularly when puzzling over pictures. Art and illusionists is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces. This has proved fascinating to humankind since the dawning of depiction. Art and illusionists is also a celebration of the ways we see pictures, and of our ability to distil meaning from arrays of contours and colours. Pictures are not only a source of fascination for artists, who produce them, but also for scientists, who analyse the perceptual effects they induce. Illusions provide the glue to cement the art and science of vision. Painters plumb the art of observation itself whereas scientists peer into the processes of perception. Both visual artists and scientists have produced patterns that perplex our perceptions and present us with puzzles that we are pleased to peruse. Art and illusionists presents these two poles of pictorial representation as well as presenting novel 'perceptual portraits' of the artists and scientists who have augmented the art of illusion. The reader can experience the paradoxes of pictures as well as producing their own by using the stereoscopic glasses enclosed and the transparent overlay for making dynamic moiré patterns."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Art -- Psychological aspects.
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Art -- Psychological aspects. |
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Art. |
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Optical illusions in art.
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Visual perception.
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Optical illusions in art. |
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Visual perception. |
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ART -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wade, Nicholas. Art and Illusionists. Cham : Springer International Publishing, ©2015 9783319252278 |
| ISBN |
9783319252292 (electronic book) |
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3319252291 (electronic book) |
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9783319252278 (print) |
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3319252275 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-25229-2 |
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