Dalí's Optical Illusions

Dalí's Optical Illusions
Author: Salvador Dalí
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300081774

Explores Dali's experiments with perspectives, offering more than one hundred color and sixty-one black and white illustrations of the artist's optical illusions.

Masters of Deception

Masters of Deception
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781402705779

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.

Seeing Things!

Seeing Things!
Author: Anna Claybourne
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Optical illusions
ISBN: 9781538241882

Salvador Dali is just one artist that employed the use of double images in his art. This historical practice can really puzzle someone looking at Dali's artwork, until they see the second image. This book introduces readers to interesting artistic concepts as well as how the human brain perceives them. Readers draw connections between scientific theory, art, and their own experiences looking at the many optical illusions found in each chapter. This book is a mind-bending adventure.

Masters of Deception

Masters of Deception
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010
Genre: Optical illusions in art
ISBN: 9781435129290

Astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author Douglas R. Hofstadter make this 320-page, breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions.

Optical Illusions in Art

Optical Illusions in Art
Author: Alexander Sturgis
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2003-02-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781402706509

Explains some of the tricks used by artists throughout history to make viewers think they are seeing something that really is not there, discussing perspective, mirror images, surrealism, color magic, disguise, and other techniques.

The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions

The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781402734045

Contains color and black-and-white illustrations of over three hundred optical illusions, each with brief, explanatory text.

Optical Illusions

Optical Illusions
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This intriguing collection contains more than 275 optical illusions that appear to change before your eyes. Al Seckel carefully selected both well-known images, such as Shepard's tabletop, Wade's spiral, Ames room and Rubin's face/vase, and many lesser-known, but no less effective, illusions. Every type of optical illusion is here, along with notes about the science of each visual perception and how the illusions work. Among the baffling images and shapes are: Figure/ground illusions, in which one shape switches into another then back again Ambiguous figures Impossible objects Trompe l'oeil Stereo illusions. With illusions rendered in photography, artwork and computer imaging, and a huge variety of themes and effects, Optical Illusions dazzles both the mind and the eye.

The Great Book of Optical Illusions

The Great Book of Optical Illusions
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781552976500

Selection of over 280 optical illusions from historical and modern sources.

The World's Best Optical Illusions

The World's Best Optical Illusions
Author: Charles H. Paraquin
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1987
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806966441

A collection of over 100 optical illusion puzzles, with explanations of the reasons for their effects.

Eye Tricks

Eye Tricks
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher: Booksales
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2007
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781862004900

Filled with 150 colorful optical illusions, all sourced, designed, and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the puzzle and illusion creator. Each image carries an explanation of how it works and details of why it fools the human brain.