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M.C. Escher (Friesland, 1898- Laren, 1972) Dutch-born printmaker, particularly famous for his Surrealist interlocking images, which are now some of the most popular images for contemporary posters. Educated at the School of Ornamental Design in Haarlem, Escher was an accomplished artist in woodcut, lithography and engraving. He became world renowned after he began depicting complex, and even

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Mondrian Relativity by M.C. Escher

The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher [25th Anniversary Edition] by

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"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 ...more

M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work (With a Fully Illustrated Catalogue) by F. H. Bool, J. R. Kist, F. Wierda

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M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (New Edition) by Doris Schattschneider

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Doris Schattschneider's classic M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called "the regular division of the plane," the puzzle-like interlocking ...more

M. C. Escher by M. C. Escher, Maurits Cornelis Escher

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Renowned artist M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. Weird, beautiful, finely detailed illusions. ...more

M.C. Escher : 29 Master prints by Maurits Cornelis Escher

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M. C. Escher ® Kaleidocycles: An Illustrated Book and 17 Fun-to-Assemble Three-Dimensional Models by Maurits Cornelis Escher

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A Kaliedocycle is a three-dimensional ring made from a chain of solid figures enclosed or bonded by four triangles. These kaleidocycles are adaptations of Escher's two-dimensional images of fish, angels, flowers, people, etc., transformed into uniform, interlocking, three-dimensional objects whose patters wrap endlessly. Kaleidocycles contains a 48-page book with over ...more

M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Special Edition) by

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M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design ...more

M C Escher by Sandra Forty

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Maurits 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 and unsettling territory. His extraordinary pictures of logic and perspective fool the brain into believing the impossible- that staircases can climb forever, that fish can ...more