1st Edition

Visual Allusions Pictures of Perception

By Nicholas Wade Copyright 1990
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Originally published in 1990, Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of pictures that communicate hidden messages, either by implying something else, or by a shape or portrait... Read more

Preface  1. Images of Vision  2. Pictures as Allusions  3. Literal Pictures  4. Visual Allusions  5. Pictures and Perception.  Appendix 1: High-contrast Photographic Techniques.  Appendix 2: The Combination of Graphics with Photography.  Author Index.  Subject Index

Biography

Nicholas Wade