Illusion in Art: Trompe l'Oeil - A History of Pictorial Illusionism

379, [9] pp. The first comprehensive study of Illusionism, from frescoes of classical antiquity to the architectural quadratura of the Renaissance and the deceptions of the Age of Reason. The book concludes with a study of surrealism as a present-day form of trompe l'oeil, and with an appreciation of its effects on the contemporary practitioners of both Illusionism proper and photographic realism.