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ISBN: 9780863771309 - Visual Allusions
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Visual Allusions

Pictures of Perception

Nicholas Wade

ISBN: 9780863771309
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition: illustrated edition


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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. Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of pictures that communicate hidden messages, either by implying something else, or by a shape or portrait which is carried covertly within another design. He analyses image processing stages in vision, demonstrating that the various stages may be related to styles in representational art. He shows how the way we have been taught to look at and recognise objects, affects the way we see them. The book lavishly illustrates with original examples of visual allusions and includes detailed practical advice on how photographers and designers can create them. Essential reading for photographers, designers, artists, people in film and television, and anyone involved in visual science, visual communication and advertising.
 
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