Amazon.com description: Product Description: Alan Magee began his career in commercial illustration in the late 1960s working for such publications as Time and New York. A decade later he was concentrating exclusively on large-scale personal paintings that at once drew on and superseded this early work. Magee's meticulously photorealistic renderings of prosaic objects from stones to carburetors to doorways brought both critical acclaim and popular success, and his work has received awards from the Society of Illustrators, the National Academy of Design, and many others. His technical virtuosity, tempered with a subtle wit, constitutes a unique variant of trompe l'oeil style that indeed "fools the eye" while exploring deeper meanings. From his early illustration work, to his sublimely beautiful stones, to his surreal sculptural montages, every phase of a rich career is covered here in splendid detail with lavish color illustrations throughout.