Mirror Books, Escher & Illusion
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M is for Mirror An alphabet book with charming surprises is the best way to describe this collection of cunning pictures. Each contains special hidden images which are only revealed by using the card mirror provided. Find just the right place to put the mirror, and the mad pianist becomes an astronomer looking at the moon. An explorer in the desert becomes the pyramids he is looking for and an octopus becomes a bunch of flowers. £3.50 |
Look Twice A card mirror is the key to this amazing exploration of visual and verbal connections. Each of the pictures can be transformed by means of the mirror into a pair of opposites. Concepts like 'open and shut', 'tidy and untidy', 'ancient and modern' are each illustrated by placing the mirror in just the right places on what seem to be perfectly normal pictures. A delight to children of 5 and well upwards. Probably many adults too. £3.50 | |||
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Images of Infinity This book is a collection of drawings, writings, photographs, stories, poetry, and cartoons revolving around the problems, paradoxes and theories about the infinite and the infinitesimal - ideas that people have grappled with throughout the centuries. It is a book for people of any age who find wonderment and fascination in pursuing the simple realisation that the counting numbers follow each other without end; or in peering at the reflections and the reflections-of-reflections when two mirrors face each other. Can a drawing of a hand drawing itself and the thing it is drawing, ever be finished? £7.50 | ||||||||
The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher This magnificent book is a revealing study of the life and works of one of the most astonishing artists of our time. Copiously illustrated with his finished works, it also shows many of the sketches, studies and diagrams which he made while creating his magical effects. Escher always claimed to know nothing of mathematics, but he was fascinated by it and it inspired so much of his exploration into the nature of perception. His unique contribution to our understanding of perception and what we regard as possible or impossible is fully discussed and explained in this book. £7.95 | ||||||||
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