The Magic of M. C. Escher
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M.C. Escher the artist who lived from 1898 to 1972 suffers from horrible overexposure. Who hasnt seen the college dorm room posters postcards T-shirts and coffee mugs of such well-worn images as a hand drawing another hand or gothic buildings with never-ending staircases? The mass reproduction of these images has carved a firm place in our popular culture yet made the work dismissible as modern art. Beyond the familiar images though is an immense body of work. The Magic of M.C. Escher covers in depth the graphic illustrations woodcuts and lithographs of Eschers career. The artist has always attracted the attention of scientists mathematicians and teenage boys everywhere; the popular 1980s game Dungeons & Dragons seems to borrow heavily from the systematic yet mystical quality of his drawing style. With his amazingly repetitive graphic illustration and unflinchingly control of size shape and shading Escher draws like a human computer. One can only wonder what he might have done with todays graphic tools.
