Author: Melanie Royal
Publisher: North Light Book
Keywords: illusions, painted
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1581805489
ISBN-13: 9781581805482
Melanie Royals returns with more of the great techniques that made her first book, Trompe L’Oeil Murals Using Stencils, a must-have for anyone seeking to explore the intriguing possibilities of trompe l’oeil. Designed to be used by newcomers to the art and featuring sophisticated content that will captivate professionals, Painted Illusions includes: * Step-by-step projects using stencil techniques so easy to master that even novices can paint beautiful faux finishes and trompe l’oeil images * Inspiring photographs of completed projects and helpful hints for alternative applic
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, illusions, book
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312429010
ISBN-13: 9780312429010
Vermont professor David Zimmer is a broken man. The protagonist of Paul Auster’s 10th novel, The Book of Illusions, hits a period in which life seemed to be working aggressively against him. After his wife and sons are killed in an airplane crash, Zimmer becomes an alcoholic recluse, fond of emptying his bottle of sleeping pills into his palm, contemplating his next move. But one night, while watching a television documentary, Zimmer’s attention is caught by the silent-film comedian Hector Mann, who had disappeared without a trace in 1929 and who was considered long-dead. Soon, Zim
Author: Terry Eagleto
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: postmodernism, illusions
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1996-12-31
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0631203230
ISBN-13: 9780631203230
In this brilliant new critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
Author: Matthew Luckiesh
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: illusions, visual
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1965-06-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 048621530X
ISBN-13: 9780486215303
Excursion into fascinating borderland of science where many disciplines overlapthe realm of optical illusions. First published in 1922, this introduction is still the best for layman, describing virtually every type of visual illusion known to mancolor, nature, depth, distance, more. New introduction. 100 figures. Index. Bibliography.
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: novel, illusions, book
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-04
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0805054081
ISBN-13: 9780805054088
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, illusions, book
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312421818
ISBN-13: 9780312421816
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmers interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years.When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmers mailbox bearing a
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: illusions, optical, book, ultimate
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402734042
ISBN-13: 9781402734045
Prepare to be amazed! Inside the covers of this incredible, colorful collection are hundreds of the worlds most powerful optical illusions. Theyre beautiful to behold, and stunning in their trickery. Some of the mind-boggling images seem to spring into action, vibrating, pulsing, and spinning like a hula hoop. Other ambiguous illusions feature two subjects in one: the fun is in finding them both in the single pictureincluding a mouse playing hide and seek in a cats face and a strange desert mirage where palm trees imperceptibly morph into camels. And still more, like The Impossible Terrac
