Der Zauberspiegel Des Maurits Cornelis Escher
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**
Few artists have made the impossible feel so inevitable as Maurits Cornelis Escher, and Bruno Ernst's Der Zauberspiegel des Maurits Cornelis Escher — The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher — stands as the definitive guide to understanding why. Written with the unique authority of a personal friend and intellectual companion of the artist, Ernst chronicles Escher's extraordinary visual universe: the impossible architectures, the self-referential loops, the tessellations that transform birds into fish and day into night, all rendered with the precision of a master printmaker and the mind of a mathematician. Ernst's analysis goes far beyond mere appreciation, dissecting the geometric and conceptual principles that underpin each lithograph, woodcut, and mezzotint with remarkable clarity. The work presents Escher not simply as a graphic artist, but as a profound thinker who operated at the intersection of art, mathematics, and philosophy — a man whose images continue to unsettle our assumptions about space, perception, and reality. For anyone wishing to truly understand the mechanics behind one of the 20th century's most captivating visual minds, this volume is an indispensable key to the mirror's magic.
Author: Bruno Ernst
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, TACO
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**
Few artists have made the impossible feel so inevitable as Maurits Cornelis Escher, and Bruno Ernst's Der Zauberspiegel des Maurits Cornelis Escher — The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher — stands as the definitive guide to understanding why. Written with the unique authority of a personal friend and intellectual companion of the artist, Ernst chronicles Escher's extraordinary visual universe: the impossible architectures, the self-referential loops, the tessellations that transform birds into fish and day into night, all rendered with the precision of a master printmaker and the mind of a mathematician. Ernst's analysis goes far beyond mere appreciation, dissecting the geometric and conceptual principles that underpin each lithograph, woodcut, and mezzotint with remarkable clarity. The work presents Escher not simply as a graphic artist, but as a profound thinker who operated at the intersection of art, mathematics, and philosophy — a man whose images continue to unsettle our assumptions about space, perception, and reality. For anyone wishing to truly understand the mechanics behind one of the 20th century's most captivating visual minds, this volume is an indispensable key to the mirror's magic.