Taschen | ISBN:3822837032 | File Type: PDF, 116 pages | File size: 44.Mb | Jan. 1st, 2007
European Art: A woman once rang me up and said Mr Escher I am absolutely crazy about your work In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation I replied Madame if that s the way you see it so be it An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher 1898 1972 the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single minded interpretations far behind Long before the first computer generated 3 D images were thrilling the public Escher was a master of the third dimension His lithograph Magic Mirror dates as far back as 1946 In taking that title for this book mathematician Bruno Ernst is stressing the magic spell Escher s work invariably casts on those who see it Ernst visited Escher every week for a year systematically talking through his entire oeuvre with him Their discussions rested in a friendship that gave Ernst intimate access to the life and conceptual world of Escher Ernst s account was meticously scrutinized and made accurate by the artist himself Escher s work refuses to be pigeonholed Scientific psychological or aesthetic criteria alone cannot do it justice The questions remain Why did he create the pictures How did he construct them What preliminary studies were necessary before he cod arrive at the final version And how are the various images Escher created interrelated This book complete with biographical data 250 illustrations and explications of mathematical problems offers answers to these and many other questions and is an authentic source text of the first order
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