M. C. Escher: The Graphic Work

I've been fascinated with and delighted by M.C. Escher's art since I first encountered his famous "Relativity" print as a small child. I love the way he way he plays with perspective, with dimensions, with background and foreground, with visual paradoxes, and recursion, and all kinds of almost mathematical ideas, all while retaining a sense of whimsy.

This particular volume reproduces 76 Escher prints (at least of couple of which, much to my surprise, I don't think I'd seen before), with the author himself providing a short introduction and a paragraph or so of commentary on each piece. These commentaries are often not much more than a simple description of what it is we're looking at, and yet even so I found many of them gave me show more interesting new insights. After all these years, it's rather wonderful to know I can still see new things in Escher's work. show less

Escher is enlightening, mind-bending and if the essence (not the stories) of the sci-fi genre of other worlds could be painted instead of written, it would look like this.

Very simply, an excellent primer on one of the premier artists of our generation.

Following the brief introduction is the "Classification and Description of the Numbered Productions", 76 prints are listed and each is furnished with a brief description or explanation. Following that are the prints themsleves, each shown full-page in size (or as large as page format will allow), eight of which are shown in colour. In addition to the 72 prints there are a further 10 illustrations included.

This is a well produce book with good quality illustrations.

Art critics be damned. I love to look at M.C. Escher's art.

Unique drawings of surreal worlds.

Per Inge Kvindesland liked Escher and bought this book.