Illusion in Painting by Mateusz Salwa

Peter Lang AG
Illusion in Painting by Mateusz Salwa
Illusion in Painting by Mateusz Salwa
Product Specifications
  • Title: Illusion in Painting by Mateusz Salwa
  • Author: Mateusz Salwa
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Binding: Hardback
  • The arts general issues
  • No. of pages: 252
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 216 x 155 x 20

Product Description

This book aims to present trompe-l’oeil painting as an ambigous aesthetic ideal offered by early modern theory of art. It embodies the idea of an image identical to what it represents. It is interpreted in terms of perceptual and aesthetic illusion mimesis diegesis play irony and scientific illustration.