Those claims are important but they tend to be made – loudly, as they must be – to the detriment of another type of understanding, less obvious but no less vital, that makes its way into the darker spaces of the world, ripping the cover from the illusions through which the most deadly forms of power sustain and congratulate themselves.
We studied the size weight illusion through comparative judgments.
"Magic: The Science of Illusion," through Sept. 6 at Liberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, (201) 201-1000.
As conventional stages enhance illusion through scenery and lights, museum environments set the stage through attention to detail.
While it's based on the original Swan Lake, Maillot has used an edited version of the Tchaikovsky score, and collaborated with the writer Jean Rouaud to develop a story that filters the ballet's themes of love and betrayal, reality and illusion through a modern, erotic slant.
Her "Ohne Titel" (2000) reminds me of Ad Reinhardt's subterranean colored, blue-green paintings, though Ms. Parish creates her illusion through transparency, texture and detail.
It's not really a life of champagne and beautiful people, but we do like to maintain that illusion through our designs.
Learn more about how he expands space through illusion in the video above, and check out a selection of our favorite works below.
Computer-generated models -- like one program that gives the viewer the illusion of flying through the nooks and crannies of a human skull -- can clarify tiny, convoluted anatomical structures in a way that actual preserved specimens cannot.
As he follows one disillusioned young man through his day on October 6 , 1981— the day that President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of a militant, underground Islamic group — Mahfouz melds illusion and reality through the eyes of his protagonist, Ilwan, and flashes of memory leap about in time.
