M. C. Escher: The Graphic WorkPresenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature 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 in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher's further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972. 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. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confrontation with the limitations of our sensory perception. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:
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Contents
Verbum | 16 |
Sphere surface with fishes | 17 |
Path of life II | 18 |
Smaller and smaller | 19 |
Whirlpools | 20 |
Circle limit I | 21 |
Square limit | 22 |
Circle limit III | 23 |
Puddle | 48 |
Three worlds | 49 |
Still life with reflecting globe | 50 |
Hand with reflecting globe | 51 |
Three spheres II | 52 |
Dewdrop | 53 |
54 | 54 |
Inversion 55 Cube with magic ribbons | 55 |
Circle limit IV | 24 |
Fishes and scales | 25 |
Butterflies | 26 |
Reptiles | 27 |
Cycle | 28 |
Encounter | 29 |
Magic mirror | 31 |
Metamorphose | 32 |
Predestination | 33 |
Mosaic I | 34 |
Mosaic II | 35 |
Unlimited spaces 36 Depth | 36 |
Cubic space division | 37 |
Three intersecting planes | 38 |
Spatial rings and spirals 39 Knots | 39 |
Moebius band II | 40 |
Concentric rinds | 41 |
Spirals | 42 |
Sphere spirals | 43 |
Moebius band I | 44 |
Rind | 45 |
Bond of union | 46 |
Mirror images 47 Rippled surface | 47 |
Concave and convex | 56 |
Polyhedrons 57 Double planetoid | 57 |
Tetrahedral planetoid | 58 |
Order and chaos | 59 |
Gravitation | 60 |
Stars | 61 |
Flat worms | 62 |
Relativities 63 Another world II | 63 |
High and | 64 |
Curlup | 65 |
House of stairs | 66 |
Relativity | 67 |
Conflict flatspatial 68 Three spheres I | 68 |
Drawing hands | 69 |
Balcony | 70 |
Doric columns | 71 |
Print gallery | 72 |
Dragon | 73 |
Impossible buildings 74 Belvedere | 74 |
Ascending and descending | 75 |
Waterfall | 76 |
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artist black birds building Castrovalva centre Circle limit cm Three colour Concentric rinds cube Curl-up dark Dewdrop dimensional Drawing hands edges end-grain figures Flat worms following prints form and contrast four blocks Gilles NĂ©ret glide reflexion grey Haarlem Hand with reflecting HENRI MATISSE horizon horsemen House of stairs houses infinite smallness Ingo F intaglio intersecting planes Jacob Baal-Teshuva knot large number lithograph lower M. C. ESCHER METAMORPHOSE METAMORPHOSE METAMORPHOSE mezzotint middle mirror image Moebius band Mosaic nadir octahedrons outwards pattern perspective picture piece of paper planetoid printed from four printed from three raised relief rectangular reflecting globe Regular division right angles shapes side side-grained Sky and water space spatial spherical spirals square Symmetry drawing tail tetrahedron three blocks Three spheres Three spheres II Tower of Babel triangle vanishing point Verbum vertical wall Walther white and black white fish wood-block wood-engraving printed woodcut printed zich