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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published...
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Discover secret math and science tricks to creating art! This title introduces readers to the sciences with a creative twist. Math and science lessons are interspersed with optical illusion activities. All activities include how-to photos, easy instructions, and clear explanations.
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Intermediate and advanced art students receive a broad vocabulary of effects with this in-depth study of light. Topics include basics, use of light to define form and space, field effects, colored light, and many other subjects. Diagrams and paintings illustrate applications of principles to figure, still life, and landscape paintings.
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"Look and look again . . . at the sense which lets us see: Sight! Award-winning authors and artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv achieve a remarkable fusion of a far-reaching scientific and historical exploration of the phenomenon of sight with a philosophic reflection on its nature. A stunning sequence of rich infographics provoke the reader to look . . . learn . . . and think"--
6) Eye teasers
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Those studying art spend a long time learning about how to create the right perspective. Depending on what's around a tree or animal, the main part of the image can look different, bigger, smaller, closer, or farther away. It's really just a trick. Readers learn how the brain is affected by these optical illusions through accessible content as well as many examples they'll have fun deciphering.
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"It's moving! Or is it? Optical illusions are tricks that our eyes and brain play on us to make us see things differently-like still images that appears to float, spin, or wiggle along. Explore magnificent moving illusions and learn the science behind what makes them work. Then, take a turn making your own optical illusion. Get ready to be eye-mazed!"--
9) Color farm
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Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1990
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1st ed.
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[34] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The rooster, dog, sheep, cow, pig, and other animals on a farm are made up of colorful shapes such as square, circle, rectangle, and triangle. Features die-cut pages.
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"What is that color? Optical illusions are tricks that our eyes and brain play on us to make us see things differently-like colors that switch to their opposites when you stare too long or sneaky shades that are really the same. Explore cool color illusions and learn the science behind what makes them work. Then, take a turn making your own optical illusion. Get ready to be eye-mazed!"--
11) Who's hiding?
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English
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Presents a series of animal picture puzzles with a question on each page. Suggested level: junior.
12) Re-zoom
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English
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A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a boat which becomes the image on a magazine, which is held in a hand, which belongs to a boy, and so on.
14) Color zoo
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English
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Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.
15) I am Blop!
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Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
c2013.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Children will discover the wonderful world of blops, a fun pictorial exploration of variations on a simple shape.
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Very short introductions volume 538
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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First edition.
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xxi, 162 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behavior as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive,...
19) Zoom
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Viking
Pub. Date
1995
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
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