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The Art of Illusion

Author : Florian Heine
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791386799

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Discover how artists have been tricking the human eye for centuries in this gorgeous and wide-ranging exploration of the art of illusion. This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work such as the scenery at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, and the ceiling frescos at the Würzburg Residence in Germany, that showcase processes such as trompe l'oeil and anamorphosis. It also features work from the 20th and 21st centuries, including René Magritte's classic Surrealist works; M.C. Escher's magical and mathematically precise drawings; the seemingly undulating paintings of Bridget Riley; the manipulated photography of Andreas Gursky; Duane Hanson's eerily lifelike sculptures; JR's larger-than-life portrait photographs; and Georges Rousse's mind-bending constructions. The book also has examples of amazing street art including subway graffiti and a sidewalk painting that makes pedestrians think twice. This extraordinary and informative guide to all kinds of artistic trickery will satisfy scholars as well as everyday fans.

The Art of the Illusion

Author : Brad Honeycutt,Terry Stickels
Publisher : Imagine Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1936140713

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While even the simplest of illusions please, this stunning volume showcases over 200 of the finest images from around the world. Artists include Rafael Olbinski, Rob Gonsalves, Octavio Ocampo, David MacDonald, Gene Levine and M.C Escher. From the most classic optical illusions to complex graphic and painterly designs.

The Art of Illusion

Author : Terry Ackland-Snow,Wendy Laybourn
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785003448

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Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills behind filmmaking remain the same. In The Art of Illusion, renowned Art Director Terry Ackland-Snow shares his passion and knowledge of traditional film design from over fifty years of industry experience, using real-life case studies from some of the UK's most iconic films, including Batman, Labyrinth, the James Bond franchise and The Deep. Featuring over 100 original sketches, as well as rare behind-the-scenes photographs, storyboards and artwork, this book is exquisitely illustrated throughout, demonstrating the skills and techniques of film design with stunning intricacy. This is an essential guide for anyone aspiring to a career in production design, and will be of great value to all movie enthusiasts who are interested in the art of creating a film set. Superbly illustrated with 238 illustrations featuring over 100 original sketches, as well as rare behind-the scenes photographs.

Virtual Art

Author : Oliver Grau
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262572230

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An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art. Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype. Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future.

Citizen Spectator

Author : Wendy Bellion
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807838907

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In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.

Masters of Deception

Author : Al Seckel
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 1402705778

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Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.

Art and Illusion

Author : Ernst Hans Gombrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033403978

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The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts 1956, National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Art of Optical Illusion

Author : Agata Toromanoff,Pierre Toromanoff
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Optical illusions in art
ISBN : 9401461538

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The Art of Optical Illusion by Agata Toromanoff,Pierre Toromanoff Pdf

"Neural networks do not understand what optical illusions are." - Technologyreview.com "Some pictures tell a thousand lies." - hplyrikz.com An optical illusion confuses the eye by pretending to be something it isn't. It both misleads and deceives the brain, which is trying to make sense of the information the eye is sending. This book presents a selection of brain-bending optical illusions featuring graphic art and photography by 60 artists, and includes an overview of the history of optical illusions in art. AUTHOR: Agata Toromanoff is an art and design historian. She has worked for collectors and galleries and has curated and managed various projects in the field of contemporary art and design. She has published several successful international titles, including Sofas and Chairs by Architects with Thames and Hudson. SELLING POINTS: * A clear and accessible overview of visual illusions, spanning artwork from graphics to photography * A selection of optical illusions that will fool your brain time after time 150 colour, 40 b/w images

Illusion in Nature and Art

Author : Richard Langton Gregory
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 068414185X

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The meaning, use, and effects of illusion are discussed from artistic and scientific perspectives

Artifice and Illusion

Author : Celeste Brusati,Samuel van Hoogstraten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226077853

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Artifice and Illusion by Celeste Brusati,Samuel van Hoogstraten Pdf

Samuel van Hoogstraten is familiar to scholars of Dutch art as a talented pupil and early critic of Rembrandt, and as the author of a major Dutch painting treatise. In this book, Celeste Brusati looks at the art, writing, and career of this multifaceted artist. A rich appreciation of one of the most often cited but least understood figures in seventeenth-century Dutch art, this book will interest scholars and students of art history, social history, and visual culture.

The Illusion of Return

Author : Samir El-Youssef
Publisher : Halban Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912600014

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Meeting a friend after many years' separation, the narrator wonders whether the events they both lived through in Lebanon really took place. Time and distance give a sense of unreality but when the narrator and Ali meet at Heathrow Airport, after seventeen years, the past slowly begins to unfold.Like so many other Palestinians who were born in the Lebanon, they had to leave in the mid-1980s, when it became a battlefield for different militias and armies – Lebanese, Palestinian, Israeli and Syrian. Ali leaves for America and, two years later, the narrator leaves for London.Their memories are concentrated on one fatal night when they and two other friends are together for the last time, before tragedy strikes. But for the narrator, a personal tragedy had struck much earlier, one which he would never forget and could not share.

Extending Art of Illusion

Author : Timothy Fish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1612950027

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Art of Illusion is an open source 3D graphics program developed by Peter Eastman. Now you can get more out of it by creating your own plugins and scripts. Extending Art of Illusion will show you how to create your first plugin for Art of Illusion and demonstrates methods you can use to create plugins and scripts that add features you want.This book is divided into two sections. The first section provides example plugins and scripts that modify the Art of Illusion user interface, reposition objects in the scene, point cameras, lights and objects at objects, create new objects, and more. The second section is a quick reference. It provides a listing of the Art of Illusion public interfaces. It also includes a listing of many of the mathematical equations that you may need when writing code for 3D graphics software.If you desire to get the more from Art of Illusion, you should have this reference close at hand.

Illusion Art

Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Optical illusions in art
ISBN : 0431014760

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'Art Off the Wall' is a lively and informative series which introduces young artists to a range of exciting art forms. The books focus on the techniques used by professional artists and include activities that will help you develop your skills and create your own projects.

Illusions: The Art of Magic

Author : Christian Vachon,Suzanne Sauvage
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8874397585

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Illusions: The Art of Magic by Christian Vachon,Suzanne Sauvage Pdf

In 2015 the McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada, was gifted with the Allan Slaight Collection, one of the largest treasuries of posters and documents on magic in the world. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Illusions. The Art of Magic at the McCord Museum, this volume presents 250 exceptional posters from this collection, dating from the 1880s to the 1940s. During this period, known as the Golden Age of Magic, droves of traveling magicians and prestidigitators fought a veritable advertising war. All over the United States and Europe, city walls and billboards were plastered with posters offering tantalizing previews of their most spectacular tricks, giving poster designers and printers of the era a golden opportunity to flex their imaginations and load their work with devils and demons, skeletons and skulls, bodies and decapitated heads, playing-cards and rabbits, alluring assistants, phantasmagoria and esoteric symbols. Seven authors recognized as experts in their respective fields introduce this dazzling array of color and fantastic imagery, providing insights to explain the full historic, social and artistic value of these magnificent posters.

Do You See what I See?

Author : Angela Wenzel
Publisher : Prestel Junior
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791324888

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Explores how still-life paintings can look three-dimensional, how open doors can lead nowhere, and how other optical illusions are created in paintings by artists ranging from Raphael to Escher.