Mysterious and mathematical at once, the magical visual world of Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) has captivated scientists and scholars and made its mark on popular culture, inspiring book covers, album art, films, posters, and puzzles.This set puts Escher's tessellated wonders right at your fingertips with 17 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures. Folding along the score lines, you can transform the artist's richly geometric designs into three-dimensional polyhedra with forming and reforming patterns, including genius arrangements of flowers, butterflies, lizards, and seashells. The book includes a review of the geometric principles and artistic invention underlying Escher's optical marvels as well as concise instructions. Intricate patterns and mind-boggling graphics are trademarks of the fascinating creations of M.C. Escher. This set puts his magical visual world right at your fingertips with 17 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures, transforming his repeating patterns into three-dimensional polyhedra, while the book reviews the geometric principles and artistic.

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Titre

M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles

�diteur

Taschen February 2022

Date de parution

2022

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

3836583690

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9783836583695

Reliure

Hardcover

�tat de l'article

New

Catalogues du vendeur

Art - Artists, A-Z

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Mysterious and mathematical at once, the magical visual world of Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) has captivated scientists and scholars and made its mark on popular culture, inspiring book covers, album art, films, posters, and puzzles.

This set puts Escher’s tessellated wonders right at your fingertips with 17 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures. Folding along the score lines, you can transform the artist’s richly geometric designs into three-dimensional polyhedra with forming and reforming patterns, including genius arrangements of flowers, butterflies, lizards, and seashells. The book includes a review of the geometric principles and artistic invention underlying Escher’s optical marvels as well as concise instructions.

� propos des auteurs

Doris Schattschneider es profesora em�rita de matem�ticas en el Moravian College de Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), donde dio clases durante 34 a�os. Su inter�s tanto por la geometr�a como por el arte le llev� de forma espont�nea a estudiar la obra de M. C. Escher. Docente, lectora, editora y autora. Ha escrito diversos trabajos sobre la obra de Escher. Su libro M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry es un exhaustivo estudio de la simetr�a de Escher, e incluye fotograf�as en color de los 150 dibujos de Escher sobre simetr�a.

Wallace G. Walker pas� la mayor parte de su carrera como artista residente en Nueva York. Estudi� en la Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills (Michigan); es el descubridor de las IsoAxis. Trabaj� para I. M. Pei and Partners y fue profesor en la Parsons School of Design y en el Institute of Technology de Nueva York. En 1989 volvi� a su ciudad natal, Shreveport (Louisiana), donde continu� con sus actividades art�sticas hasta su muerte en 2003.

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