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M.C. Escher grafiek en tekeningen (original 1959; edition 2008)

by M.C. Escher

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M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was born 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.… (more)
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M. C. Escher: The Graphic Work by M. C. Escher (Author) (1959)

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Unique drawings of surreal worlds. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
Very simply, an excellent primer on one of the premier artists of our generation. ( )
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
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 interesting new insights. After all these years, it's rather wonderful to know I can still see new things in Escher's work. ( )
1 vote bragan | Sep 11, 2018 |
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. ( )
  Petra.Xs | Apr 2, 2013 |
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. ( )
1 vote presto | Apr 24, 2012 |
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Anyone who applies himself, from his early youth, to the practice of graphic techniques may well reach a stage at which he begins to hold as his highest ideal the complete mastery of his craft.
The seven prints in this group, selected from a large number which were made before 1937, display no unity as far as their subject matter is concerned.
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M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was born 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.

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