The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher

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The Magic Mirror of M.

C. Escher. ?

A woman once rang me up and said, ?

Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.? I replied, ?

Madame, if that?s the way you see it, so be it.?? A fittingly sly comment from renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898?1972), whose complex and ambiguous drawings continue to leave hasty interpretations far behind.

Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph Magic Mirror dates as far back as 1946. By taking such a title for the book, mathematician Bruno Ernst stressed the enrapturing spell