Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali and the Ar- foreword by Douglas R. Hofstad
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali and the Ar- foreword by Douglas R. Hofstad Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made from…
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Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali and the Ar- foreword by Douglas R. Hofstad
Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made from seashells. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses.
They compel us to look once, twice, and over and over again, as we try to figure out exactly how the delightful trickery manages to fool our perceptions so completely. These dazzling and often playful artistic creations manipulate perspective so cleverly that they simply outwit our brains: we can't just take a quick glance and turn away. Of course, first and foremost, every piece is beautiful on the surface, but each one offers us so much more.
From Escher's famous and elaborate "Waterfall" to Shigeo Fukuda's "Mary Poppins," where a heap of bottles, glasses, shakers, and openers somehow turn into the image of a Belle Epoque woman when the spotlight hits them, these works of