Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries.

Every work of art that involves anamorphosis invites the viewer or reader to decrypt its distortional elements, resolve confusion and seek understanding, creating a balance between disruption and wholeness. To do this with the works examined — ranging from Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors to Hamlet to Mulholland Drive — this book favours close, almost arc...