M. C. Escher: The Graphic Work Emily Riesbeck ”— Publishers Weekly (starred)

”— Publishers Weekly (starred)

Things get juicy

With the same nuance and sympathy with which he approached Andre the Giant in his 2014 biography

Aistritheoir Mairín Ní Mhárta

an award-winning Danish writer of more than 50 titles

M. C. Escher: The Graphic Work Emily Riesbeck ”— Publishers Weekly (starred)By M. C. Escher. Published by Taschen. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (18981972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. For mathematicians and scientists, Escher is a mastermind. For