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Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen.(Review)(Brief Article)
Stafford, Barbara Maria & Frances Terpak. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. Getty Research Inst. Nov. 2001. c.416p. illus. index. LC 2001001270. ISBN 0-89236-590-0. pap. $39.95. FINE ARTS
Somewhere between the science of optics and the world of visual amusements lies the material to be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, as documented here. The show will gather inventions that alter or enhance visual perception, from the Renaissance to the present, including a startling variety of "eye machines," from mirrors and microscopes to dioramas and panoramas. Among the more familiar tools of perception are …
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