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About the book >.>.> Dawn Ades and other authorities in the field discuss such paintings as The Enigma of William Tell in which Dall experimented with anamorphosis the perspectival distortion that produces on the canvas elongated forms demanding an oblique viewpoint. They also note his interest in other more conven- tional forms of perspective and their sources in both Dutch and Italian art. They study his development of the famous double image the “paranoiac-critical method” that produced images that could be “read” in multiple ways as seen in his Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach or Impressions of Africa. And they reveal his fascination with optical effects and three-dimensional illusions that is apparent in his post-war work: the “screen-dot” paintings like Sistine Madonna or Portrait of my Dead Brother in which an image emerges from a “pointillist” surface; the striking stereometric paintings he began in the early 1970s-twin panels that have to be viewed through special lenses; and his holograms. The authors explore these works and many others pointing to their sources in scientific theories of perception and perspective and comparing them with the work of such twentieth-century artists as Marcel Duchamp who was similarly concerned with optics. (MP)