M.C. Escher

Inbunden bok. Taj Books International. 2010. 96 sidor.

Nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. ISBN: 978-1-84406-123-5

En engelskspråkig bok med en presentation av Maritz Cornelis Escher, en fantastisk grafisk illustratör, och ett urval av hans otroliga optiska illusioner.

Skyddsomslag i nyskick.
16 cm x 16 cm

Mauritz Cornelis Escher was a truly unique artist whose vision was quite unlike anyone else's.
To enter his world is to set foot into unknown territory. His extraordinary pictures of logic and perspective fool the brain into believing the impossible - that staircases can climb forever, that fish can morph into birds, and that water can run uphill. Escher was a stunning graphic illustrator, especially of landscape and
architecture - and in particular of italian hilltop towns.
But it is his world of strange perspectives and distorted vision for which he will be best remembered. The fact that he was able to produce these visual conundrums again and again, delighted and mystified his public, many of whom were mathematicians.
Remarkably, Escher had no mathematical training, but through his superb draughtmanship he explored the furthest reaches of crystallography and defied the laws of reason and perception.
His collaboration with Caroline MacGillavry, professor of crystallography at the University of Amsterdam, led to a book, symmetry aspects of M.C. Eschers periodic drawings, produced
under the auspices of the International Union of Crystallography.