Since the mid-20th century, many artists have made use of anamorphosis in public artworks.
American land art pioneer Michael Heizer's Complex One (1972-1974), a massive earth and concrete
structure in the Nevada desert, creates a rectangular frame for a mastaba when viewed from a
specific location.[1] Inspired by Luxor and other ancient monumental sites, it is part of the
larger work City, an enormous sculpture running a mile and a half long.[17]
Shigeo Fukuda, a Japanese artist and designer globally renowned for his satirical posters on
anti-war and environmental advocacy,[18] created posters and sculptures making use of both types of
anamorphosis in the 1970s and 1980s.[19] He also wrote multiple books on the topic of optical
illusions.
Felice Varini's 2014 work Three Ellipses for Three Locks in Hasselt, Belgium is an image of three
loops that are made up of segments painted on to over 100 buildings. It is only visible from a
specific vantage point over the city.[13]
Jean-Max Albert, Un carré pour un square, from the specific vantage point, Place Fréhel, Paris
(1988)
French artists that have created recent anamorphic installations include François Abélanet[20] and
Jean-Max Albert.[21]
Markus Raetz's Kopf is a large scale public installation that reveals the form of a person's head
in profile when viewed from a specific vantage-point. It was installed in a public park in Basel,
Switzerland.[1]
While anamorphic images were not his exclusive area of focus, the American artist Jonathan Borofsky
created installations in the 1980s using anamorphic techniques, exhibiting at institutions such as
the Museum of Modern Art.[1]
Jonty Hurwitz pioneered the use of a mathematical technique to create catoptric sculptures that
resolve in a cylinder.[22] In 2013 he produced a public work for the Savoy Hotel's River Room.[23]