Product Description: Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic designers, teachers, and artists who want to explore illusions that are distorted in size or create the perception of movement. Amateur illusionists are invited to draw curves that diverge and converge, diamonds that vibrate and flicker, hypnotic spirals, ghosts, and ambiguous figures, and many other visual tricks...read more

Product Description: Traveling back and forth across generations and movements, this engrossing book looks at the myriad ways artists fool their audiences. The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity, when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery...read more

Product Description: This eye-catching, colorful book is designed to inspire those artists interested in optical illusions and as an invaluable reference toll for people who to wish to create them. In clear, easy steps, this book shows people how to design a range of original and classic optical illusions and even how to create their own personalized illusions...read more

Product Description: The world of graphic and power to create illusions

Product Description: A multitude of intriguing designs — 293 all-original visual delights in all — feature circles, squares, lines, and angles arranged in stunning displays of balance and asymmetry, exactitude and illusion. Each eye-opening presentation appears to recede, advance, shimmer, and vibrate in fascinating Op Art style...read more

Celebrates the use of optical illusion in art, presenting the importance and uniqueness of such work, discussing such artists as Salvador Dalâi, M.C. Sesher, and Istvâan Orosz.

Celebrates the use of optical illusion in art, presenting the importance and uniqueness of such work, discussing such artists as Salvador Dalâi, M.C. Sesher, and Istvâan Orosz.

Introduces the principles of illusion art, explaining how artists use perceptions of depth and distance, foreshortening, super-realism, tromp l'oeil, anamorphs, and changing points-of-view to create their unique form of art.

Presents a collection of over two hundred optical illusions designed to trick the mind.

Product Description: A beautifully illustrated, imaginatively designed book is packaged here with several unusual "eye magic" items. This fascinating set explores the subject of visual illusions in art and technology. The book shows and discusses many examples of trompe l'oeil (fool-the-eye) artworks, including a famous eighteenth-century painting by British artist William Hogarth, paintings by French pointillist artists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, and examples from the American Op Art movement that flourished in the 1960s...read more

Product Description: If seeing ever really was a reason for believing, it surely was not in New York around 1900. The rift between appearances and truth was widening: deceptive images flourished in advertising and mass media; science contradicted unaided vision; the spirit world gained credibility; and hucksters, frauds, and hoaxes proliferated...read more

Product Description: Quilting is a fine art, and this instructive, beautifully designed volume carries that art to new heights. Eye-fooler quilts play with our sight and imagination, creating wonderful illusions in shapes and colors. Though complex to look at, these quilts are surprisingly easy to make when quilters are given sound direction...read more

Product Description: Puzzles in living color-and with a "trickster" personality out to confound your eyes. A vivid array of optical illusions will have you doing double-takes as they seem to deceive perspective, shift shade, change pattern, and make visual magic...read more

Presents a collection of optical illusions, visual games, and hidden images from around the world

Product Description: Learn how to unravel the mysteries of creating space, depth, and perspective in your quilts - textile pictures that play tricks on your eyes! Author Karen Combs reveals these secrets by examining masterpiece quilts created by well-know quilt artists and explains their use of optical illusions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 5-D stereograms demonstrate what can happen when the creative envelope of art is expanded & enhanced by the cutting edge of technology. Stephen Schutz, PhD, has taken stereographic art to its highest level, moving far beyond conventional random-dot techniques to create a new form of interactive art...read more

Product Description: 5-D stereograms demonstrate what can happen when the creative envelope of art is expanded & enhanced by the cutting edge of technology. When combined with the beautiful words of Susan Polis Schultz, Dr Stephen Schultz's stunning grapics captivate your imagination...read more

Product Description: What is a 5-D Stereogram? A stereogram is a computer-generated image that "pops out" of the paper as if it were a Multi-Dimensional object. In order to see this image, however, the stereogram must be viewed in a certain way. How do you see the hidden 5-D stereogram image? Hold the art close to your nose so that it appears blurry...read more