Ebook: M.C. Escher’s Legacy: A Centennial Celebration
- Tags: Geometry, Science general
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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From the reviews of the hardcover edition:
"... This conference [an international congress held in June of 1998 in Rome and Ravello, Italy, to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Escher] resulted in an immensely interesting collection of articles presented in the book M.C.Escher's Legacy, A Centennial Celebration". ... Although Escher himself is no longer among us, M.C.Escher's Legacy, like a garden of continually blooming flowers, allows us to appreciate his heritage anew."
Reza Sarhangi, Notices of the AMS, April 2003
"... It is a handsome volume, and contains articles from 41 people, which cover a wide range of artistic and analytical endeavour. ... A quick dip into each section produces small gems. ... there is enough here to provide rich pickings for any interested party, no matter what their particular discipline is. Embedded in the various articles are even snippets which illuminate Escher's intentions, and his relationships with his mathematician friends (Coxeter, Penrose, Ernst et al). Even though short, these are rewarding to read.
If you are an educator in any of the fields mentioned in the paragraph below, this book is immediately worth a look... If I was a librarian of an institution which encompassed any two of fine arts, mathematics philosophy, physical science, psychology, I would definitely demand its purchase: if as many as three of them, demand it loudly! ... the CD-ROM ... is an excellent addition to the book, and contains much more material, including "video" excerpts from some of the lectures.)"
Warren Brisley, Australian Mathematical Society GAZETTE, Volume 30, Number 2, May 2003
From the reviews of the hardcover edition:
"... This conference [an international congress held in June of 1998 in Rome and Ravello, Italy, to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Escher] resulted in an immensely interesting collection of articles presented in the book M.C.Escher's Legacy, A Centennial Celebration". ... Although Escher himself is no longer among us, M.C.Escher's Legacy, like a garden of continually blooming flowers, allows us to appreciate his heritage anew."
Reza Sarhangi, Notices of the AMS, April 2003
"... It is a handsome volume, and contains articles from 41 people, which cover a wide range of artistic and analytical endeavour. ... A quick dip into each section produces small gems. ... there is enough here to provide rich pickings for any interested party, no matter what their particular discipline is. Embedded in the various articles are even snippets which illuminate Escher's intentions, and his relationships with his mathematician friends (Coxeter, Penrose, Ernst et al). Even though short, these are rewarding to read.
If you are an educator in any of the fields mentioned in the paragraph below, this book is immediately worth a look... If I was a librarian of an institution which encompassed any two of fine arts, mathematics philosophy, physical science, psychology, I would definitely demand its purchase: if as many as three of them, demand it loudly! ... the CD-ROM ... is an excellent addition to the book, and contains much more material, including "video" excerpts from some of the lectures.)"
Warren Brisley, Australian Mathematical Society GAZETTE, Volume 30, Number 2, May 2003
From the reviews of the hardcover edition:
"... This conference [an international congress held in June of 1998 in Rome and Ravello, Italy, to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Escher] resulted in an immensely interesting collection of articles presented in the book M.C.Escher's Legacy, A Centennial Celebration". ... Although Escher himself is no longer among us, M.C.Escher's Legacy, like a garden of continually blooming flowers, allows us to appreciate his heritage anew."
Reza Sarhangi, Notices of the AMS, April 2003
"... It is a handsome volume, and contains articles from 41 people, which cover a wide range of artistic and analytical endeavour. ... A quick dip into each section produces small gems. ... there is enough here to provide rich pickings for any interested party, no matter what their particular discipline is. Embedded in the various articles are even snippets which illuminate Escher's intentions, and his relationships with his mathematician friends (Coxeter, Penrose, Ernst et al). Even though short, these are rewarding to read.
If you are an educator in any of the fields mentioned in the paragraph below, this book is immediately worth a look... If I was a librarian of an institution which encompassed any two of fine arts, mathematics philosophy, physical science, psychology, I would definitely demand its purchase: if as many as three of them, demand it loudly! ... the CD-ROM ... is an excellent addition to the book, and contains much more material, including "video" excerpts from some of the lectures.)"
Warren Brisley, Australian Mathematical Society GAZETTE, Volume 30, Number 2, May 2003
Content:
Front Matter....Pages 5-XVI
Escher’s Fondness for Animals....Pages 1-4
Selection is Distortion....Pages 5-16
Ravello: An Escherian Place....Pages 17-23
Mystery, Classicism, Elegance: an Endless Chase After Magic....Pages 24-51
M.C. Escher and C.v.S. Roosevelt....Pages 52-62
Escher’s Sense of Wonder....Pages 63-68
In Search of M.C. Escher’s Metaphysical Unconscious....Pages 69-82
Parallel Worlds: Escher and Mathematics, Revisited....Pages 83-91
M.C. Escher in Italy: The Trail Back....Pages 92-99
Islamic Patterns: The Spark in Escher’s Genius....Pages 100-112
Space Time with M.C. Escher and R. Buckminster Fuller....Pages 113-124
Between Illusion and Reality....Pages 125-129
Painting After M.C. Escher....Pages 130-141
M.C. Escher: Art, Math, and Cinema....Pages 142-149
Organic Structures Related to M.C. Escher’s Work....Pages 150-153
Extending Escher’s Recognizable-Motif Tilings to Multiple-Solution Tilings and Fractal Tilings....Pages 154-165
A Circle Limit in Stone....Pages 166-174
Portrait of Escher: Behind the Mirror....Pages 175-188
Life After Escher: A (Young) Artist’s Journey....Pages 189-198
Sharing some Common Interests of M.C. Escher....Pages 199-206
New Expressions in Tessellating Art: Layered Three-Dimensional Tessellations....Pages 207-214
The Mirrors of the Master....Pages 215-229
Tilings and Other Unusual Escher-Related Prints....Pages 230-243
Escher-Like Patterns from Pentagonal Tilings....Pages 244-251
Not the Tiles, but the Joints: A little Bridge Between M.C. Escher and Leonardo da Vinci....Pages 252-264
Architecture, Perspective and Scenography in the Graphic Work of M.C. Escher: From Vredeman de Vries to Luca Ronconi....Pages 265-274
Hand with Reflective Sphere to Six-Point Perspective Sphere....Pages 275-285
Families of Escher Patterns....Pages 286-296
Escher in the Classroom....Pages 297-304
Chaotic Geodesic Motion: An Extension of M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit Designs....Pages 305-317
Rotations and Notations....Pages 318-333
Folding Rings of Eight Cubes....Pages 334-342
Dethronement of the Symmetry Plane....Pages 343-352
Computer Games Based on Escher’s Spatial Illusions....Pages 353-365
Escher’s World: Structure, Symmetry, Sense....Pages 366-378
M.C. Escher at the Museum: An Educator’s Perspective....Pages 379-392
Escher, Napoleon, Fermat and the Nine-point Centre....Pages 393-407
The Symmetry Mystique....Pages 408-419
Back Matter....Pages 420-426
Escher-Like Tessellations on Spherical Models....Pages 427-441
....Pages 448-459