visual perception

Incredible Visual Illusions is the most comprehensive and amazing collection of optical illusions ever assembled, with close to three hundred different illusions, many of which have never before been published. You will be amazed as images flash and scintillate before your eyes, other images disappear right in front of you, size and shape lose their meaning, you see motion where there is no motion and the laws of perspective are turned on their heads.

Presents a survey of sculpture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, analyzing the achievements of Rodin, Brancusi, Picasso, Gonzalez, and Matisse; and includes numerous photographs of their work.

Presents more than sixty puzzles that develop mental skills using patterns, grids, and pictures, with explained answers.

Uses photographs of animals and nature to introduce the concept of patterns.

Examines the art of Salvador Dal?, focusing on his use of pictorial techniques, photographs, and holograms in his exploration of visual perception and optical illusion.

Examines how cities have been depicted in works of art from different time periods and places.

Illustrations from increasingly distant perspectives locate a fly on a dog's nose in a flower bed by a house in a yard on a corner in a town near a bay on the earth.

40 of Escher's most amazing prints and drawings in 3-D. Tessellating figures, impossible structures, strange metamorphoses, and skewed perspectives.

Reflects upon the acquired skill of looking at art and presents instructions for doing so, explaining the extrinsic value of art education: the development of thinking dispositions, which improves students' cognition overall.