MC Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an achitect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confromtation with the limitations of our sensory perception.

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. This monograph presents the infamous Surrealist in full color and in his own words. It features his provocative imagery, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe.

The return of 'Magic Eye' which since it was introduced by Andrews and McMeel in 1993, has taken the globe by storm.

Why did renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher create the pictures? How did he construct them? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, including biographical data, illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and other questions.

Kimon Nicolaides' guide to learning to draw, consists of 64 exercises and is still used in art schools all over the world 70 years after his death.

An ambigram is where language, science, philosophy and illusion come together in the design of a word which is manipulated to create an illusion. The author shows how we can expand our understanding of terms and concepts by looking at ambigrams - words designed to be read upside down, back to front, or in a mirror as well as left to right.