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Written by the prominent art and artifact historian and authentication expert David Cycleback, this small book is an introduction to identifying common materials found in antiques, artifacts, collectibles and memorabilia. Materials covered include glass, plastics, stone, wood, paints, paper, metals, cloth, gems and leather. As a primer, it doesn't intend to 'cover it all, ' but gives the introductory basics to identifying many common materials...

Written by a prominent art historian, the pocket sized Looking at Art and Artifacts is a light and easy book that quickly touches on a variety of curious topics, from identifying jade to op art, tempera painting to Chinese ancient artifact export laws. A quick entertainment for the curious mind.

Learning about visual illusions and how they work show us that reality and human perception of reality are different things, " writes art historian David Cycleback in Conceits. Written as a fractured assortment of short pieces, the book is a mind bending look at peculiarities, curiosities and limitations of human thought and perception. Traversing psychology, physiology, science, art and philosophy, just a few of the thought-provoking topics i...

This short peer-reviewed book offers several perspectives on the diversity of brain function, including ways pathologized as disorders, and its relationship to religious beliefs.

Written by the prominent art and artifacts scholar Cycleback, this book is a primer and survey of standard methods and issues in the identification, authentication, fake and forgery detection of art, artifacts and collectibles, from ancient artifacts and famous paintings to antique toys and trading cards. Topics include stylistic and historical analysis, scientific testing (including radiometric dating, thermoluminescence testing, spectroscopy...

Looking at visual illusions and how they work show us that reality and human perception of reality are different things." Return Trip is a shortened, chopped-up and transformed version of prominent art historian Cycleback's earlier published works on aesthetics, psychology, epistemology and philosophy of art. It examines aesthetic perception and cognitive biases in relationship to information processing and the search for knowledge. The aleato...

Written by a prominent artifact historian, this booklet is a short introduction and beginner's guide to historical counting systems, including Ancient Egyptian, Inuit, Greek, Hindu, Babylonian, Chinese and Mayan. This primer is intended for the non mathematician, so the reader can learn to read and understand numerals in several languages. The book does not go into advanced calculations.

A follow up to 2014 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist Return Trip, Strange Beauty is a further look at aesthetic and artistic biases, information processing and the limits of human knowledge. The short book is written in the author's unique non-linear style mixing academic insight with humor and offbeat subjects. As he wrote in Return Trip, "My job as a writer isn't to make the hard easy. It's to make the hard hard." Cycleback is an art historian and...

This black-and-white print version on the online guide reprints previously published articles by the prominent art scholar and authentication expert David Cycleback. The book focuses on identifying standard printing processes, but includes additional chapters on authenticating and dating antique and fine art prints, and gives the essential basics for collectors, sellers, historians, students and art enthusiasts. Along with showing how to ident...

A complex and fascinating question is why do humans have such strong emotional reactions and human connections to art? Why do viewers become scared, even haunted for days, by a movie monster they know doesn't exist? Why do humans become enthralled by distorted figures and scenes that aren't realistic? Why do viewers have emotional attachments to comic book characters? The answer lies in that, while humans know art is human made artifice, they ...

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Written by the prominent art authentication and forgery detection expert David Rudd Cycleback, this small book is a primer on ultraviolet, infrared and visible light in forensic science, art and collectible examination, commerce and daily life. Topics include infrared examination of paintings, currency and license counterfeit detection, invisible ink writing, crime scene investigation, identification of alterations and restoration, and the lig...

The standard and authoritative guide to identifying, dating, understanding and authenticating sports photographs from the origins in the 1800s to today. Illustrated in black and white, the book covers the whole range of sports photography, from tintypes to cabinet cards, wirephotos to snapshots, real photo postcards to panoramas. Topics include identifying and understanding photo processes, dating and labeling styles, how to identify reprints ...