VERTIGO. OP ART AND A HISTORY OF DECEPTION 15201970

Op art works are by no means only directed at our sense of sight. With their powerful effects and optical illusions they lead to exp eriences of sensory overkill. In all of this, op art remains indebted to the anti-classical. The catalogue includes references to an ti-classical art from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and to precursors from the first half of the 20th century, works tha t also use pulsating patterns, beating and ephemeral after-images, paradoxical illusions of space, and other methods of optical illu sions.