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Dali's Optical Illusions Dawn Ades

Dali's Optical Illusions By Dawn Ades

Dali's Optical Illusions by Dawn Ades


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This exhibition catalogue contains work that focuses on Dali's fascination with optical effects and visual perception. It examines his use of various pictorial techniques, photography and holograms in the pursuit of his ideas, and the ways that optical illusion affects the sense of reality.

Dali's Optical Illusions Summary

Dali's Optical Illusions by Dawn Ades

This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion affects our sense of reality. Dawn Ades and other authorities in the field discuss such paintings as The Enigma of William Tell, in which Dali experimented with anamorphosis, the perspectival distortion that produces on the canvas elongated forms demanding an oblique viewpoint. They also note his interest in other more conventional forms of perspective and their sources in both Dutch and Italian art. They study his development of the famous double image, the paranoiac-critical method that produced images that could be read in multiple ways, as seen in his Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach or Impressions of Africa. And they reveal his fascination with optical effects and three-dimensional illusions that is apparent in his post-war work: the screen-dot paintings like Sistine Madonna or Portrait of my Dead Brother, in which an image emerges from a pointillist surface; the striking stereometric paintings he began in the early 1970s - twin panels that have to be viewed through special lenses and his holograms. The authors explore these works and many others, pointing to their sources in scientific theories of perception and perspective and comparing them with the work of such twentieth-century artists as Marcel Duchamp, who was similarly concerned with optics. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, from 21 January to 26 March 2000; at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., from 19 April to 18 June; and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh from 23 July to 1 October.

About Dawn Ades

Dawn Ades is professor of art history and theory at the University of Essex. She is also the author of many books on Spanish art and Surrealism, and the author of Art in Latin America (ISBN 0 300 04561 1), published by Yale University Press.

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GOR004005151
9780300081770
0300081774
Dali's Optical Illusions by Dawn Ades
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Yale University Press
20000201
194
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