Changing Faces

By George Tscherny and George Tscherney

Perception is fragile and easily manipulated. A painting or drawing that is flipped, flopped or stared at long enough can somehow be transformed from one image to another.In this engaging collection... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568984804
• ISBN13: 9781568984803
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

A stupendous historical and VISUAL tour-de-force!

This eye-popping book is a must-have title for anyone interested in the history of paper ephemera, mechanical novelty items, visual puns and jokes, or especially the history of popular engraving and color reproduction. Also the history of advertising ephemera. The range of material and techniques is encyclopedic, but the pictures themselves deserve special comment on their own. The pix average about 3 per page, and the color rendering (most are in color) is just delicious -- the best way I know of to get that idiosyncratic/mellow quality of 19th- to early 20th-century color printing -- and pictorial style -- across an amazingly broad creative and artistic spectrum, in a single inexpensive volume. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous....