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T**M
Love it!
Exactly as I hoped, and as described. For a gift to a budding artist.
J**A
Escher!
If you appreciate the works of Escher you will enjoy this compilation.
R**A
Actually, I'm a docent at the North Carolina Museum ...
Actually, I'm a docent at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and we are having a special exhibition of Escher's work this fall. I am reading the book to learn about him and his work. This fills the bill!
C**S
Five Stars
Great stuff, I just don't understand it.
E**L
Magic beyond understanding
The work of Escher has captured the imagination of many people and in this book Bruno Ernst (a personal friend of Escher) expands our understanding of the artist. After a brief but concise biography, the author throughly analyses the most important facets of Escher's artistic output: the illusion in drawing, the use of perspective, the creation of impossible realities, simultaneous and contrasting realities, crystals, and the infinite. Escher was an artist who was unique in in his work, he stands by himself, and this book is a helping tool in understanding and appreciating the unparalleled magic of his work.
B**A
Master artist
Love his brain. Have had mine since the 70's. I gifted it today. Hard to part with
B**M
Ernst gives a thorough, concise overview of Escher's work.
In The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher, Bruno Ernst, an acquaintance of Escher's until Escher's death in 1972, presents a thorough summary of the life and work of Escher. Ernst devotes a chapter to the life of Escher, and uses the rest of the book to describe his amazing work. He includes the different themes and styles that Escher used, and devotes a good amount of space to each work discussed. The book is extremely thorough and includes large clear illustrations of the works themselves and also of earlier drafts of the works and mathematical descriptions to assist the reader. This is the most concise book of Escher and his work I have ever seen, and Ernst has done a fabulous job on it.
T**R
Damaged item
The book is damaged. Whether it happened in the very long shipping process or was shipped that way I don't know. Returned it.
T**H
Great read
Perfect for reference
M**L
For those interested in M C Escher as an introduction
I just like the examples in the book. A great coffee table book.
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