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Author Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972, artist, writer of introduction.

Title M.C. Escher, 1898-1972 : the graphic work / introduction and commentary by the artist ; English translation, John E. Brigham.

Publication Info. Cologne : Taschen, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  769.92 ESC    Check Shelf
Edition English edition.
Description 95 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Series Basic art series 2.0.
Basic art series 2.0.
Note This title was published in 1959 by Koninklijke Erven J.J. Tijl N.V., Zwolle under the title M.C. Escher "Grafiek en Tekeningen".
Summary M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher's further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972. M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature.
Language In English translated from the Dutch.
Subject Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972 -- Themes, motives.
Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972. (OCoLC)fst00030396
Prints -- Netherlands -- 20th century.
Prints. (OCoLC)fst01076812
Themes, motives. (OCoLC)fst01355139
Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Nonfiction.
Added Author Brigham, John E., translator.
Added Title Grafiek en tekeningen. English.
M.C. Escher, the graphic work
ISBN 9783836529846
383652984X
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