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Dali's Optical Illusions
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Ades, Dawn
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- 01-02-2000
- Country of Origin
- USA, United States
- Net Quantit/Number of Units
- 1
- Dimensions LxWxH - Cms
- 10X1X11.25
- ISBN-10
- 0300081774
- ISBN-13
- 9780300081770
- SKU
- DADAX0300081774
- No of Pages
- 196
- Type
- Books
- Release Title
- Dali's Optical Illusions
- ISBN
- 9780300081770
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Dali's Optical Illusions
- Item Height
- 280mm
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Item Width
- 248mm
- Item Weight
- 1390g
- Number of Pages
- 194 Pages
About this product
Product Information
This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion affects our sense of reality. Dawn Ades and other authorities in the field discuss such paintings as The Enigma of William Tell, in which Dali experimented with anamorphosis, the perspectival distortion that produces on the canvas elongated forms demanding an oblique viewpoint. They also note his interest in other more conventional forms of perspective and their sources in both Dutch and Italian art. They study his development of the famous double image, the paranoiac-critical method that produced images that could be read in multiple ways, as seen in his Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach or Impressions of Africa. And they reveal his fascination with optical effects and three-dimensional illusions that is apparent in his post-war work: the screen-dot paintings like Sistine Madonna or Portrait of my Dead Brother, in which an image emerges from a pointillist surface; the striking stereometric paintings he began in the early 1970s - twin panels that have to be viewed through special lenses and his holograms. The authors explore these works and many others, pointing to their sources in scientific theories of perception and perspective and comparing them with the work of such twentieth-century artists as Marcel Duchamp, who was similarly concerned with optics. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, from 21 January to 26 March 2000; at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., from 19 April to 18 June; and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh from 23 July to 1 October.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300081770
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89102261
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dali's Optical Illusions
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
194 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
280mm
Item Width
248mm
Item Weight
1390g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Et Al, Etc., Dawn Ades
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Seller Feedback (2,729)
- s***s (2970)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseCondition excellent, as described, well packaged, dispatched promptly.Excellent communication from seller. Arrived ahead of anticipated delivery dates. ARRIVED 1st May, expectected between 24th May and 3rd June. Thank you. No import tax payable. A very pleasing experience. Would recommend this seller. A book l have been seeking to replace for 7 years after it got misplaced when moving house after bereavement.
- a***l (338)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAlthough the description details were misleading, the customer support was rather good. I ordered the 2-volume set of ‘Atlas Shrugged’, but received a single volume. It might not seem like much to others, but it’s a large book and a 2-set volume would have made it easier to read. In addition, poor packaging damaged the DJ. Anyways, after sending firm, yet precise and polite emails, the situation was promptly resolved, hence the positive feedback; and, why I would buy again from the seller. 👍
- c***r (537)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseBook as specified, rapid delivery (from USA to UK), and a reasonable price for the book. Overall, my book arrived in "ok quality" packaging. A padded "book mailer" envelope was used. However, inside, there was no other protective packaging. One small point of constructive feedback: perhaps cardboard packaging could have been implemented, as a number of competing book sellers are now implementing cardboard packaging, especially for higher price books subject to international delivery.