M.C. Escher's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration : Collection of Articles Coming from the M.C. Escher Centennial Conference, Rome, 1998

Michele Emmer, Doris Schattschneider

Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 4, 2005 - Art - 458 pages

From the reviews of the hardcover edition:

... This conference [... to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Escher] resulted in an immensely interesting collection of articles ... 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.

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 ... Even though short, these are rewarding to read.

... the CD-ROM ... is an excellent addition to the book, and contains much more material, including "video" excerpts from some of the lectures."

Australian Math. Soc. GAZETTE May 2003

Contents

• Eschers Fondness for Animals: 1
• Selection is Distortion: 5
• An Escherian Place: 17
• an Endless Chase After Magic: 24
• MC Escher and CvS Roosevelt: 52
• Eschers Sense of Wonder: 63
• In Search of MC Eschers Metaphysical Unconscious: 69
• Escher and Mathematics Revisited: 83
• The Trail Back: 92
• The Spark in Eschers Genius: 100
• Space Time with MC Escher and R Buckminster Fuller: 113
• Between Illusion and Reality: 125
• Painting After MC Escher: 130
• Art Math and Cinema: 142
• Organic Structures Related to MC Eschers Work: 150
• Extending Eschers RecognizableMotif Tilings to MultipleSolution Tilings and Fractal Tilings: 154
• A Circle Limit in Stone: 166
• Behind the Mirror: 175
• A Young Artists Journey: 189
• Sharing some Common Interests of MC Escher: 199
• Layered ThreeDimensional Tessellations: 207
• The Mirrors of the Master: 215
• Tilings and Other Unusual EscherRelated Prints: 230
• EscherLike Patterns from Pentagonal Tilings: 244
• A little Bridge Between MC Escher and Leonardo da Vinci: 252
• From Vredeman de Vries to Luca Ronconi: 265
• Hand with Reflective Sphere to SixPoint Perspective Sphere: 275
• Families of Escher Patterns: 286
• The Trigonometry of Eschers Woodcut Circle Limit III: 297
• Escher in the Classroom: 305
• An Extension of MC Eschers Circle Limit Designs: 318
• Rotations and Notations: 334
• Folding Rings of Eight Cubes: 343
• Dethronement of the Symmetry Plane: 353
• Computer Games Based on Eschers Spatial Illusions: 366
• Structure Symmetry Sense: 379
• Adapting Eschers Rules for Regular Division of the Plane to Create TesselMania: 393
• An Educators Perspective: 408
• Escher Napoleon Fermat and the Ninepoint Centre: 420
• The Symmetry Mystique: 427
• EscherLike Tessellations on Spherical Models: 442
• Solution to Scott Kims puzzle: 448
• About the Authors: 449

Bibliographic information

• Title: M.C. Escher's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration : Collection of Articles Coming from the M.C. Escher Centennial Conference, Rome, 1998
• Editors: Michele Emmer, Doris Schattschneider
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2005
• ISBN: 3540201009, 9783540201007
• Length: 458 pages
• Subjects: Art / Individual Artists / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / General; Mathematics / General; Mathematics / Geometry / General; Science / General; Social Science / General