Ascending
and Descending
Belvedere
Relativity
Swans
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M. C. Escher, captain of the fourth and the fifth
dimensions, master of the woodcut as medium of a voyage into "fearful symmetry."
The notion of a fantatsic space reaches its apogee in Escher's compelling
evocations of impossible geometries, dizzying perspectives and places that
we can't get to from here. When up is down, and inside is out, where is
here? Escher's fantastic engravings seem the perfect spatial accompaniment
to the enigmas of Borges, his worlds within worlds, his times out of time. |