M.C. Escher : visions of symmetry / Doris Schattschneider ; foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: New editionDescription: xiii, 370 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmISBN:- 0810943085
- 9780810943087
- Visions of symmetry
- 740.92 23
- NC263.E83 S3 2004
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Revised and expanded edition of: Visions of symmetry : notebooks, periodic drawings, and related work of M.C.Escher, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : patterns that haunt the mind / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Ch. 1. The route to regular division -- Ch. 2. The 1941-1942 notebooks -- Ch. 3. The regular division drawings -- Ch. 4. The use of regular division -- Ch. 5. Notes on the drawings.
"Doris Schattschneider's Visions of Symmetry is a study of Escher's work. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called "the regular division of the plane," the puzzlelike interlocking of birds, fish, lizards, and other natural forms in continuous patterns. Schattschneider asks, "How did he do it?" She answers the question by analyzing Escher's notebooks." "Visions of Symmetry includes many of Escher's masterworks, as well as hundreds of lesser-known examples of his work. This new edition also features a foreword and an illustrated epilogue that reveals new information about Escher's inspiration and shows how his ideas of symmetry have influenced mathematicians, computer scientists, and contemporary artists."--BOOK JACKET.
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