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THE PLAYFUL EVE brings together for
the first time an extraordinary international collection of visual materials which exploit the universal
love of visual play. Every page offers a puzzle or a conundrum to tease the eye and intrigue the mind.
These are not merely optical illusions but irresistible games for the eye to play: visual puns, hidden
images, transformations, upside-downs and rebuses. These images are wonderfully diverse: comic,
poignant, ingenious, sinister; some are robustly grotesque, some are simply beautiful.
The book draws on rare original ephemera, most of It virtually unknown, and is a uniquely elegant
compendium of nineteenth and early twentieth century popular graphics, brilliantly presented In full
colour throughout. Introductions to each section add the pleasures of the text to those of the eye.
Pictures from the collections of James Dalgety, Edward Hordern, The Bodleian Library Oxford and other sources
Front cover: Evil Cats - Kabukl Qhost Story,...
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Fülszöveg
THE PLAYFUL EVE brings together for
the first time an extraordinary international collection of visual materials which exploit the universal
love of visual play. Every page offers a puzzle or a conundrum to tease the eye and intrigue the mind.
These are not merely optical illusions but irresistible games for the eye to play: visual puns, hidden
images, transformations, upside-downs and rebuses. These images are wonderfully diverse: comic,
poignant, ingenious, sinister; some are robustly grotesque, some are simply beautiful.
The book draws on rare original ephemera, most of It virtually unknown, and is a uniquely elegant
compendium of nineteenth and early twentieth century popular graphics, brilliantly presented In full
colour throughout. Introductions to each section add the pleasures of the text to those of the eye.
Pictures from the collections of James Dalgety, Edward Hordern, The Bodleian Library Oxford and other sources
Front cover: Evil Cats - Kabukl Qhost Story, woodblock print, Japan 1847
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