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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

by E.H. Gombrich

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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Ba-ra-kei
by Eikoh Hosoe

The Hundred Headless Woman (1929)
by Max Ernst

Rembrandt's Nose
by Michael Taylor

The Rings of Saturn
by W.G Sebald