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Item Number: 103982
Title: Art and Illusions : Masterpieces of Trompe l'oeil from Antiquity to the Present Day
Author: Giusti, Annamaria (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788874611409
Description: Firenze: Mandragora, 2009. 29cm., pbk., 318pp. illus., most in color. English text. Exhibition held at Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze. Publishers summary: The exhibition, which traces the fascinating history of trompe l'oeil or deceiving the eye, breaks out of the formal confines of art in the same way as the boy in the painting chosen to symbolise the exhibition breaks out of a picture frame to explore new ways of experimenting with reality. Imaginary windows opening out onto cityscapes, table tops that tempt the watcher to pick up deceptively graspable objects, crockery, clothes, shoes, buttons disguised to resemble animal or vegetable forms, and polychrome sculptures that "breathe life" into faintly disturbing clones: with over 150 works of painting, sculpture and applied art from a large number of different museums and collections, the visitor will be able to discover the neuro-scientific phenomena behind works of art whose aim is to foster illusion. This is a journey between art and science involving all five senses, leading the visitor into a parallel world designed to deceive not only the eye but also the nose, the fingers, the ears and the taste buds, with an often ironic sense of playfulness that will bring him face to face with the deeper significance of the illusions artists devised. The aim is to allow the visitor to probe the many ways in which the human brain can be deceived, and the pleasure a person feels in being involved in such deception. While contemplating masterpieces by Titian, Velázquez, Mantegna, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Turrell and Pistoletto, the visitor will also be able to taste, touch, hear and smell in a journey of the senses designed constantly to challenge his perception.
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