Bruno Ernst (–2021)

Indeholder "1. Tingen", "2. Den forvredne dåse", "3. Rumlige angivelser", "4. Inversion", "5. Kuboider", "6. Trapper", "7. Flader, der samtidig er langt væk og nær ved", "8. Dobbelt position", "9. Forsvindende rum", "10. Umærkeligt umulige figurer", "Litteratur".

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Her er eksempler på trapper der vender underligt og andre mærkværdigheder kendt fra M. C. Eschers kunst. Forfatteren har da også skrevet en bog om netop M. C. Eschers kunst.… (meer)

Indeholder "Part One: Drawing is deception", " 1. The Magic Mirror", " 2. The Life of M. C. Escher", " Not Much of a Scholar", " Italy", " 3. An Artist Who Could Not Be Pigeonholed", " Mystics?", " Art Critics", " Cerebral", " 4. Contrasts in Life and Work", " Duality", " Fellow Men", " Escher and Jesserun de Mesquita", " 5. How His Work Developed", " Themes", " Chronology", " Prelude and Transition", " 6. Drawing Is Deception", " The Rebellious Dragon", " And Still It Is Flat", " How 3-D Grows Out of 2-D", " White Meets Black", " Day Visits to Malta", " Blow-up", " Growing 256 Times Over", " Bigger and Bigger Fish", " 7. The Art of the Alhambra", " The Stubborn Plane", " Principles of Plane Tessellations", " Making a Metamorphosis", " The Most Admired Picture of Them All", " The Stone Lad", " Angels and Devils", " A Game", " A Confession", " 8. Explorations into Perspective", " Classical Perspective", " The Discovery of Zenith and Nadir", " The Relativity of Vanishing Points", " Relativity", " New Rules", " High and Low", " A New Perspective for Cubic Space-Filling", " House of Stairs", " 9. Stamps, Murals, and Bank Notes", "Part Two: Worlds that cannot exist", " 10. Creating Impossible Worlds", " 11. Craftsmanship", " Drawing", " Lithographs and Mezzotints", " Multiple Reproduction", " Modern Art", " 12. Simultaneous Worlds", " Globe Reflections", " Autumn Beauty", " Born in a Mirror", " Intermingling of Two Worlds", " Windowsill Turned Street", " The Print That Escher Never Made", " 13. Worlds That Cannot Exist", " Concave or Conves?", " Cube with Magic Ribbons", " Phantom House", " Wrong Connections", " The Quasi-Infinite", " 14. Marvelous Designs of Nature and Mathematics", " Stars (1948)", " Tetrahedral Planetoid (1954)", " Gravity (1952)", " New Types of Building Blocks", " Superspiral", " Moebius Strips", " 15. An Artist's Approach to Infinity", " Prints with Similar-shaped Figures", " Square Limits", " Birth, Life, and Death", " The Coxeter Prints", " Snakes", "Index of Illustrations".

Maurits Cornelis Escher blev født i Leeuwarden den 17 juni 1898 og døde den 27 marts 1972 og lavede fantastiske tegninger. Denne bog fortæller om hans liv og om de mange billeder og træsnit.… (meer)

Fine book, well illustrated. Discusses different kinds of impossible figures, what visual cues conflict to induce the impossibility, how to recognize a truly impossible figure, etc. Uses M. C. Escher's painting as examples of the occurrence of particular well-categorized kinds of impossible figures. Offers plans for models that, viewed from certain angles, appear to be impossible figures. Rather short, at just under 100 pages, but that is part of its appeal.

A version put out by another publisher, Taschen, is a bit better than the one published by Tarquin. It is in a larger format, and contains many color illustrations and photographs which are shown only in black and white in the Tarquin version. The color photographs of models of impossible figures are somehow much more convincing than the black and white versions.… (meer)