Art and Illusionists

Fantastic colourful kaleidoscope celebrating optical illusions and their creators

The multitude of original pictures are not only a source of fascination for artists, who produce them, but also for scientists, who analyze the perceptual effects they produce

Includes a variety of new pictures and "perceptual portraits" created by the author

"Art and Illusionists" is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces

The book is also a celebration of the ways we see pictures, and of our ability to distil meaning from arrays of contours and colours

Includes hands-on-material such as a single grating transparencies, moving patterns or a red/cyan spectacle

Unlike other books on the topic the book also concentrates on the illusionists - that is, the artists and scientists who produced paradoxical pictures, who are celebrated in new 'perceptual portraits'

A wonderful combination of science, arts - and joy

Includes a variety of new pictures and "perceptual portraits" created by the author, who is a leading scientists and artist in the field

Autorentext

Nicholas J. Wade is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He received his degree in psychology from the University of Edinburgh and his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, at Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Germany. His research is concerned with the representation of space and motion in human vision, the history of vision research, binocular and motion perception, and the interplay between visual science and art. He has carried out psychophysical research on many visual phenomena and has written extensively on the history of the vision and perception. Nick Wade is the author of more than 20 successful books as well as multitudinous influential papers in the field. He is a long time consulting editor of the journal Perception and Section editor on Sensory and Behavioral Sciences of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Perspective Paradoxes.- Trompe l'oeil.- Mosaics and Tiling.- Impossible Figures.- Surrealism.- Geometrical Optical Illusions.- Ambiguity.- Hidden Images.- Word and Image.- Colour.- Contrast.- Faces.- Scintillation and Apparent Motion.- Moiré and Motion.- Stereoscopic Vision.