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ISBN 0822520648
Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
One of the more oddball traditions in art gets a well-deserved spotlight in this lively survey of visual jokes from ancient Roman times to the present. Using many examples, the author shows how artists as diverse as Mantegna, Magritte and Duane Hanson manipulate popular fascinations (e.g, with food, money, health or spatial relations) with their superrealistic renderings (of, for example, fruit tarts, coins, people or architectural motifs); viewers (and many readers of this book) gasp at both the artist's skill and their own gullibility. Americans like William M. Harnett, the Pealle family, Richard Haas, Marilyn Levine and contemporary interior designers are well represented, with the effect that trompe l'oeil seems almost a national pastime.
Trompe l'oeil is the method of "painting something so perfectly that the viewer is fooled into believing that what he or she sees is real" ; in other words, it is a visual game full of jokes and surprises. Capek writes engagingly and so appreciatively of his subject that his text keeps pace with the abundant and amazingly lifelike reproductions. He explains clearly what trompe l'oeil is, its history, and its common themes and devices - broken objects, money, landscapes, etc. Tucked into the text are features on specific trompe l'oeil artists, as well as a feature on mosaics. Its impish delights require first-hand experience, or at least extraordinary replication.
64 pages. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex-Library, cleaner than usual.
Weight = 500 g
BOOK / DUST JACKET CONDITION = VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
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