Christmas Books: Art - IS BLUE A PROTESTANT COLOUR?

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Tim Hilton | Copyright information

The best art book for the Christmas season is Deceptions and Illusions (Lund Humphries pounds 50), which accompanies an exhibition now at the Washington National Gallery. At first you think how diverting and entertaining are its plates. They are all of trompe l'oeil painting, from classical antiquity to Roy Lichtenstein. Then we look again, read the commentaries and realise that this is a clever, immensely learned survey of ironic illusionism in Western art.

Trompe l'oeil is rather un...

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