10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANAMORPHOSCOPE»
Discover the use of
anamorphoscope in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
anamorphoscope and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
American Cinematographer
In the "Encyclopedia of Photography," published by Arno Press, the
anamorphoscope is described using "curved mirrors" to make unusual
photographs, one distorts (or squeezes) the image while another mirror restores (
or unsqueezes) it to ...
It was in 1937 when a Frenchman, Henri Chretien, an honorary professor at the
Sorbonne and at the Optical Institute, developed what he called an anamorpho-
scope. The anamorphoscope was a lens which returned a previously distorted ...
3
Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity
For Althusser, then, the field of subjectivity is organized anamorphoscopically.
The anamorphoscope is a device in which a cylindrical mirror is placed at the
empty center of a picture that has been systematically distorted so that its image
in the ...
4
Subliminal Ad-Ventures in Erotic Art
Anyone can construct an anamorphoscope by simply paper-clipping a sheet of
silver-mirror Mylar around a 3-inch pickle jar. Looking through a collection of
pictures with the anamorphoscope, by chance I picked up the Signet paperback ...
5
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
The mirror, as noted in the preceding chapter, is obviously an anamorphoscope,
and Cecilia's memories are an indirect commentary on the novel that records
them — or rather an anticommentary: Invitation presents a beautiful account of
the ...
The second anamorphoscope, a conical one to be used only with the pictures on
pages 56 and 57, should be 4 inches high and 1 Vi inches in diameter at the
bottom, tapering up to a point at the top. It should be shaped from mylar or foil.
The mirror, called an anamorphoscope, is usually a polished cylinder or cone.
The appearance of the undistorted reflection is so magical and surprising that few
people seeing it for the first time fail to exclaim in wonder. At this point the reader
...
8
Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory
... in one world. In the novel Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon introduces us to a
device called an anamorphoscope, “or more properly no doubt a
paramorphoscope because it reveals worlds which are set to the side 154
Cosmopolitan Spaces.
9
Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Incidentally, the inventory-list of the physical theatre of 1705 reveals that also de
Volder had disposed of an anamorphoscope-mirror, as well as a magic lantern.
35 Both 's Gravesande and de Volder created, intentionally or not, dra- matic ...
10
Brian Castro's Fiction
Amando introduced him to the idea of anamorphosis, 'the creation of distorted
images which looked normal when perceived with an anamorphoscope' (141) as
a way of suggesting that with imagination he would be able to see things about ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANAMORPHOSCOPE»
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anamorphoscope is used in the context of the following news items.
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