I selected some examples of anamorphosis, not the
most visually surprising, trying to keep up with a theme discussed in Pale
Fire.
The illustration of the process comes from a
magazine cover with Cocteau and a cilindrical sample. There is a deformed wall
to be seen and its visual "reconstitution" presented in two squares. We
also see an elongated Charles II and a more deformed Charles II ( from the
book cover) and a caricature that is inviting us to find three where
there only one is to be seen.
Cf. Jurgis Baltrusaitis, Anamorphoses, Les
perspectives dépravées, Ed. Flammarion -1984