Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite
by Maurits Cornelis Escher
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Author: Maurits Cornelis EscherTranslator: Karin Ford
Contributor: J. W. Vermeulen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Dutch (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-03-25
ISBN: 0810924145
Number of pages: 158
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Book Reviews of Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite
Book Review: "I'm walking around all by myself here."..Escher
Summary: 5 Stars
As a longtime fan of Escher's work,I found this an excellent book.I have several books of Escher's work,a couple of jigsaw puzzles,and his "Kaleidocycles" of 17 full-color ,three dimensional ,folding models.This book is very interesting to any fan of Escher's work as it is Escher himself explaining his reasons for creating his art.
For a long time, he was virtually alone in his field, that combines both graphic art and Geometric Mathematics.
Reading the book is as close as one can get to attending lectures by the master himself. Escher prepared lectures that were accompanied with slides of his work that he intended to give to explain his work. The book contains the complete text of these lectures as well as pictures of the slides and his explanations.
The book shows what great difficulty he had in gaining acceptance of his work ,which critics had great difficulty in catgorizing his work and thus tended to ignore it for many years.
While the reproductions in this book are small,as other reviewers have mentioned,don't let that discourage you from getting this book.There are other books with much larger reproductions that show off his work much better.But, if you want to get a much deeper knowledge of this wonderful artist and understand his motives and life;you would have a hard time in finding a better sourse to turn to.
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