The Great Book of Optical Illusions
Al Seckel. Firefly Books, $24.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-1-55297-650-0
You can't always believe what you see in The Great Book of Optical Illusions by Al Seckel. Organized in eight sections called ""galleries,"" the exhaustive volume presents more than 280 color and b&w images created by the likes of M.C. Escher, Salvador Dal!, Shigeo Fukuda and Ren Magritte. Classics such as Impossible Staircase and Rubin's Face/Vase Illusion are also included; Seckel's IllusionWorks presents brand-new stunners, each of which is explained at chapter's end.
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Reviewed on: 07/04/2005
Genre: Nonfiction