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THE
GRAPHIC WORK
OF
M.C.ESCHER
Introduced and explained by the artist
BALLANTINE BOOKS - NEW YORK
All rights reserved. No part of this book in excess of 500 words, and no illustration,
may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publishers.
SBN 345-24678-0-595
Printed by TijI B.V., Zwolle, Holland
TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH BY JOHN E. BRIGHAM
© Koninklijke uitgeverij Erven J. J. TijI B.V., Zwolle, Holland, 1960
© American edition Meredith Press. New York
Library of Congress Catalogue card no. 61-11940
New, Revised and Expanded Edition published October 1967
This edition published by arrangement with Hawthorn Books Inc. First Printing, August
1971
Ninth Printing, April 1975
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
201 East 50th Street
New York, N.Y. 10022
CONTENTS
Introduction
5
Reptiles
28
VI. INVERSION
Cube with magic ribbons
Classification and Description
11
Cycle
29
55
Biographical notes
16
Encounter
30
Convex and concave
56
Magic mirror
31
I. EARLY PRINTS
Tower of Babel
Metamorphosis
32
VII. POLYHEDRONS
Double planetoid
1
Predestination
33
57
Castrovalva
2
Mosaic I
34
Tetrahedral planetoid
58
Palm
3
Mosaic II
35
Order and chaos
59
Portrait G. A. Escher
4
Gravity
60
Fluorescent sea
5
III. UNLIMITED SPACES
Three intersecting planes
Stars
61
St. Peter’s, Rome
6
36
Dream
7
Flat worms
62
Cubic space-division
37
Depth
38
II. REGULAR DIVISION OF A PLANE
Horseman
VIII. RELATIVITIES
Another world
8
63
IV. SPATIAL RINGS AND SPIRALS
Knots
Swans
9
High and low
64
39
Two intersecting planes
10
Curl-up
65
Moebius strip I
40
Day and night
11
House of stairs
66
Moebius strip II
41
Sun and moon
12
Spirals
42
Relativity
67
Sky and water I
13
Sphere spirals
43
Sky and water II
14
IX. CONFLICT FLAT-SPATIAL
Three spheres I
Concentric rinds
44
Liberation
15
Rind
45
68
Development I
16
Bond of union
46
Verbum
17
Drawing hands
69
Smaller and smaller
18
Balcony
70
V. MIRROR IMAGES
Rippled surface
Path of life II
19
Doric columns
71
47
Sphere surface with fishes
20
Print gallery
72
Three worlds
48
Whirlpools
21
Dragon
73
Puddle
49
Circle limit I
22
Still life with reflecting globe
50
Circle limit III
23
X. IMPOSSIBLE BUILDINGS
Hand with reflecting globe
51
Circle limit IV
24
Belvedere
74
Three spheres II
52
Square limit
25
Ascending and descending
75
Dewdrop
53
Pishes and scales
26
Waterfall
76
Butterflies
27
Eye
54
3
EIGHT HEADS, woodcut stamped-print, 1922.
This is the first regular division of a plane surface carried out by the artist, when he was a pupil
of the School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. It indicates at what an early stage
he felt drawn to rhythmic repetition. In the original wood-block eight heads were cut, four female
and four male. Space can be filled to infinity with contiguous prints.
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