The book also includes Nocturnal Rome (1934), a series of 12 woodcuts created by the artist based on his nighttime wanderings through the city. M.C. Escher, “Circle Limit III” (1959), woodcut ...

M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles is a new box set featuring 17 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures transforming his repeated patterns into three-dimensional polyhedra, while an accompanying book details ...

M.C. Escher created 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings before he died in 1972. He also illustrated books and designed postage stamps, murals and tapestries. While living, though ...

World famous artist M.C. Escher kept the smile of Anna Frank's face very close to him in his working study for the rest of ...

M.C. Escher's works tend to evoke two reactions ... And those of us who bought his books then for their concrete-block coffee tables likely still have him in their libraries: Escher works ...

If you’re of a certain age, the mere mention of the name M.C. Escher can nudge you into a heady swirl of nostalgia. Robin Lutz’s joyful and kaleidoscopic documentary “M.C. Escher: Journey to ...

On the printed page of an art book or magazine, Escher’s work acquires a hard, mechanical coldness that exaggerates certain tendencies in his work, principally his overpowering search for ...

She described this process in the book M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry. His rules state that: “He became very, very adept at producing these tilings or tessellations,” Schattschneider says.

Let there be no mistake about it. Many of the pictures that now routinely appear in print are no more than pictorial aids to reasoning, graphical sketches intended to suggest or persuade rather than ...