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Most of the pictorial puzzles shown so far in the book have been faithful to geometry. They have played with the perception of pictures by inventively stretching the rules of perspective. Their practitioners in art have been referred to as ‘geometricizers’ and they are preoccupied with space and time, trying either to contain or expel them from their works. ‘Geometricizers’ have been contrasted with ‘magicians’ who reacted against the technological developments that resulted from scientific advance : surrealist artists were the magicians (see Waddington 1969). However, surreal landscapes were constructed long before ‘surrealists’ were given this title, and this chapter presents illustrations of two from the seventeenth century: the features of the countryside can be represented in ways that are at once recognizable and then perplexing.
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Wade, N. (2016). Surrealism. In: Art and Illusionists. Vision, Illusion and Perception, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25229-2_6
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