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1wcarter
Art and Illusion 2000
Now for something completely different, an art book about how art deceives us.
Written by E H Gombrich , and encompassing 386 pages with 320 black and white photos and illustrations, Art and Illusion is an unusual book that studies the psychology of pictorial representation. This includes optical illusions and the way in which shapes and marks can be made to signify and suggest things beyond themselves.
It is bound in blue buckram blocked with a silver optical illusion geometric design. The slipcase is a bright yellow, printed with a different black and white optical illusion of birds. The paper is unusual for the FS in that it is semi-gloss, but the paper type is not mentioned on the colophon page. It is printed under licence from Phaidon, and I suspect this is just a rebound Phaidon edition from 1977.
The endpapers show an eclectic coloured representation of various newspapers, books, documents, medallions and tools painted by Edward Collyer in the late 17th. Century.
The text is taken from a series of seven lectures given by the author in 1956 at the National Gallery in Washington for the A. W. Mellon lectures.
An interesting text, but probably not one of the best publications by the FS from an aesthetic perspective.
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An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed at : http://www.librarything.com/topic/266300
Now for something completely different, an art book about how art deceives us.
Written by E H Gombrich , and encompassing 386 pages with 320 black and white photos and illustrations, Art and Illusion is an unusual book that studies the psychology of pictorial representation. This includes optical illusions and the way in which shapes and marks can be made to signify and suggest things beyond themselves.
It is bound in blue buckram blocked with a silver optical illusion geometric design. The slipcase is a bright yellow, printed with a different black and white optical illusion of birds. The paper is unusual for the FS in that it is semi-gloss, but the paper type is not mentioned on the colophon page. It is printed under licence from Phaidon, and I suspect this is just a rebound Phaidon edition from 1977.
The endpapers show an eclectic coloured representation of various newspapers, books, documents, medallions and tools painted by Edward Collyer in the late 17th. Century.
The text is taken from a series of seven lectures given by the author in 1956 at the National Gallery in Washington for the A. W. Mellon lectures.
An interesting text, but probably not one of the best publications by the FS from an aesthetic perspective.
Endpapers-
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed at : http://www.librarything.com/topic/266300
3Firumbras
I had been looking at copies of this on abebooks; my battered Phaidon paperback edition needs replacing. I regret not picking this one up while it was in print.
4c_schelle
>3 Firumbras: One just showed up on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Art-and-Illusion-E-H-Gombrich-Folio-Society-2000-w-/19...
No connection to the seller.
No connection to the seller.
5CarltonC
>1 wcarter: Thank you for this which is interesting and informative, as ever, especially the illustrations.
>3 Firumbras: I saw this in Hay-on-Wye Booksellers last month, but already have a fine paperback copy and so did not want to replace it when, as Dr Carter says, it appears to just be a rebinding of the original Phaidon edition.
(Instead I picked up The War in Granada, after drasvola suggested it on the completing sets thread https://www.librarything.com/topic/260370#6090747 , so I did not escape unscathed!)
>3 Firumbras: I saw this in Hay-on-Wye Booksellers last month, but already have a fine paperback copy and so did not want to replace it when, as Dr Carter says, it appears to just be a rebinding of the original Phaidon edition.
(Instead I picked up The War in Granada, after drasvola suggested it on the completing sets thread https://www.librarything.com/topic/260370#6090747 , so I did not escape unscathed!)
6Jayked
Folio 60 confirms "typeset and printed in Hong Kong (details unknown)....The edition was printed by arrangement with Phaidon, using the same setting of type and illustrations prepared for their fifth edition of 1977."
8drasvola
>5 CarltonC:
Suggested because Gerald Brenan (author of South from Granada) supervised the editing of the manuscript, besides the historical connections.
Suggested because Gerald Brenan (author of South from Granada) supervised the editing of the manuscript, besides the historical connections.
