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The Playful Eye

An album of visual delight

Edited and designed by Julian Rothenstein, Texts by Mel Gooding

The Playful Eye is the first book ever to put together an extraordinary international collection of visual materials which exploit the universal love of pictorial play. Every page offers a puzzle or paradox to tease and intrigue the eye. These are not optical illusions with psychological or philosophical implications, but irresistible games for the eye to play; visual puns, hidden images, transformations, topsy-turvies and upside-downs, ambiguities and anamorphoses, visual-verbal jokes, rebuses and Japanese visual conundrums. The book draws on rare original ephemera, most of it virtually unknown and is a uniquely elegant compendium of nineteenth and early twentieth century graphic styles, brilliantly presented in full colour throughout.

ISBN: 1 870003 72 1
Large format (320mm x 250mm) paperback, 112pp £19.95 to be published in November 1999.

The Redstone Diary 2001: Odysseys and Other Journeys

Edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding

The new millennium odyssey is under way! As we set out on our own momentous voyages of the twenty-first century, the Redstone Diary travels into myth, history, natural history, art and science to discover compelling images of the greatest journeys in the world (and out of it).

Travellers include: Jorge Luis Borges, Bruce Chatwin, Tacita Dean, Sonia Delaunay, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Richard Long, Osip Mandelstam, Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and many others.

Redstone Matchboxes

Boxed sets of 24 full colour postcards, 155mm x 105mm

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No. 5 Fosforus Cubanos: Sunsets over the eastern sea, stars in the skies of island nights, memories and dreams: Cuba Caribe! Cuba of palms! Cuba in its little matchbox histories. ISBN: 1 870003 92 6 £7.95 inc VAT

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No. 6 The Japanese Box: Graphic wit and calligraphic charm: the spectacular art of the Japanese matchbox. ISBN: 1 870003 97 7 £7.95 inc VAT

The Redstone Notebook

with The Portrait Game drawings by Ivan Turgenev, texts by Ivan Turgenev, Pauline Viardot and others.

Following 'The Ghosts of my Friends' which was published as a supplement in the small-format Redstone Notebook, comes The Portrait Game which was invented by the great novelist in 1856. His brilliant profile sketches, together with imaginative personality interpretations written by Turgenev and the other players survived among his papers and a selection are published here.

The Beast is Near
by David Shrigley

48 Brilliantly funny new drawings and texts

ISBN: 1 870003 08 X
180mm x 140mm paperback to be published in November. £5.95

        Redstone Matchboxes
          Boxed sets of 24 full colour postcards,
          155mm x 105mm each £7.95 inc. VAT.

• No.1: Upside-down heads: the universal game of topsy-turvy faces. ISBN: 1 870003 42 X
• No. 2: Birds, Beasts and Butterflies: the poetic world of matchbox natural history. ISBN: 1 870003 47 0
• No. 3: Mexicana: Sport, music, love, gambling, dancing, smoking, drinking: all the prodigal pleasures of Mexico pictured on the matchboxes of the time. 
ISBN: 1 870003 62 4
• No. 4 : Light of India: Humanity and the gods co-exist in the vivid world of Indian matchbox art, as in the everyday life of India itself. ISBN: 1 870003 67 5

The Paradox Box

An amazing box of comic and beautiful illusions to tease the eye and bemuse the mind. A stylish collection of rare visual entertainments from the 19th and early 20th centuries reproduced here for the first time since their original publication.
With an introduction by Jonathan Miller.