Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Escher on Escher : exploring the infinite
Oneindige. English
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
This book provides a solid image of Escher as he saw himself--not as an 'artist' but as an artisan, a graphic artist with heart and soul, obsessed by contrasts and possessed by a unique creativity.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- M.C. Escher ; with a contribution by J.W. Vermeulen ; translated from the Dutch by Karin Ford
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- New York : H.N. Abrams, 1989
- Physical Details
-
- 158 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0810924145, 9780810924147
- OCLC
- ocm18496465
- Translation of: Het oneindige.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 154).
- Artist or graphic artist? -- Craft -- Our brother -- White-gray-black -- Graphic artist with heart and soul -- Lectures that were never given -- Regular division of the plane -- Other themes -- Four hobbies -- How did you as a graphic artist come to make designs for wall decorations? -- Approaches to infinity -- Perspective -- Impossible -- Subjective portrait -- I'm walking around all by myself here
Subjects
- Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972 -- Philosophy.
- Dutch literature -- Translation into English.
Children's Subject Heading