The Fantastic World of M. C. Escher

Once upon a time, M.C. Escher's images launched a thousand drug trips. Until
seeing this good but far from exhaustive study I wasn't aware of the esteem they
have earned in both art and scientific circles. The prolific artist is more than
a collection of coffee table art books -- his graphic images go much farther
than simple optical illusions and have inspired learned mathematical
analysis.

Maurits Cornelis Escher died in 1972, aged 73 years. Michele Emmer's docu
covers some details of his formative period but doesn't really explain how he
got into his particular field except to offer that he found inspiration in
complicated Spanish mosaic tiles. Many of his images rely on perspective tricks,
in actuality, the misinterpretation of perspective clues in two-dimensional
representations of 3-dimensional objects. Figures of people, weird birds,
liz...
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