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Taschen, Koln, Germany. Published date: 2008 [Originally published date: 1978]. Hardcover; 116 pp; 31 cm. Reprint edition. Illustrated throughout with black and white and some color reproductions of woodcuts, lithographs, drawings, diagrams, and documentary photographs; index. Very good in very good dust jacket. Purple paper over boards with large "25" printed on front cover; light scuffing to edges; binding tight. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall surface scuffing. Now housed in an archival quality removable Brodart cover. Scholarly monograph devoted to the work of M. C. Escher (1898-1972). Examines Escher's artistic development, technical methods, and conceptual investigations into perspective, visual paradox, symmetry, tessellation, and mathematical structure. Illustrated with reproductions of Escher's major prints, preparatory studies, and comparative historical images, the text situates Escher's work within broader traditions of art, architecture, and mathematics. Contents include: The Magic Mirror; The Life of M.C. Escher; An Artist Who Could Not Be Pigeonholed; Contrasts in Life and Work; How His Work Developed; Drawing Is Deception; The Art of the Alhambra; Explorations into Perspective; Stamps, Murals, and Bank Notes; Creating Impossible Worlds; Craftsmanship; Simultaneous Worlds; Worlds That Cannot Exist; Marvelous Designs of Nature and Mathematics; An Artist's Approach to Infinity; Index of Illustrations.