M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836503182 ISBN 13 : 9783836503181

Editeur : Taschen GmbH, 2008

Synopsis

Presenting 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Taschen GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836503182
• ISBN 13: 9783836503181
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Escher M. C.
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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