Hidden Images: Games of Perception, Anamorphic Art, and Illusion from the Renaissance to the Present

Publication TypeBook
AuthorsLeeman, Fred
SourceHarry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY (1975)
Keywordsbibliographic
Abstract

Hidden Images: Games of Perception, Anamorphic Art, and Illusion from the Renaissance to the Present. Contents follow: Introduction, The First Anamorphoses, The Discovery of Perspective, Illusionism, Curved and Discontinuous Picture Planes, Architecture and Theater, Perspective Cabinets, Sixteenth-Century Perspective Anamorphoses, Developments During the Seventeenth Century, Popularization in the Eighteenth Century, and a Game Section.