Article 2KWX6 The Playful Eye is a virtual feast of games and visual tricks gathered from around the world

The Playful Eye is a virtual feast of games and visual tricks gathered from around the world

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Kevin Kelly
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These vintage cards and old placards display optical illusions, visual witticisms, hidden images, rebuses, and artistic paradoxes from yesteryear. They were the equivalent of Gifs back then - eye candy worth sharing. Here they are gathered in a oversized paperback for your entertainment and amazement.

The Playful Eye: An Album of Visual Delight
by Julian Rothenstein, Mel Gooding
Chronicle Books
2000, 112 pages, 9.9 x 0.5 x 12.7 inches, Paperback
$9 Buy on Amazon

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See sample pages from this book at Wink.oE8sjNlihcU

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