Main entry:

Leeman, Fred.

Title & Author:

Hidden images : games of perception, anamorphic art, illusion : from the Renaissance to the present / text by Fred Leeman ; concept, production, and photos. by Joost Elffers and Mike Schuyt ; translation by Ellyn Childs Allison and Margaret L. Kaplan.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, ©1976.

Description:

166 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm + 1 viewer

Notes:
German translation has title: Anamorphosen.
Includes a reflective viewer.
Introduction -- 1. The first anamorphoses: Leonardo da Vinci: 'Codex Atlanticus' ; Erhard Schön ; Hans Holbein: 'The Ambassadors' -- 2. The discovery of perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi ; Leonbattista Alberti ; Piero della Francesca -- Curved perspective -- Leonardo da Vinci -- 3. Illusionism -- 4. Curved and discontinuous picture planes -- 5. Architecture and theater -- 6. Perspective cabinets -- 7. Sixteenth-century perspective anamorphoses -- 8. Developments during the Seventeenth century -- Curious perspectives -- Reflecting cones and cylinders -- 9. Popularization in the Eighteenth century -- Game section.

ISBN:

0810990199 (paperback)
9780810990197 (paperback)

Subject:

Visual perception.
Optical illusions.
Perspective.
Visual Perception
Optical Illusions
Perception visuelle.
Illusions d'optique.
visual perception.
optical illusion.

Added entries:

Elffers, Joost.
Schuyt, Michael.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204849
Call No.: N7430.5 .L4 1976
Status: Available