Additional Author:
Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
Publisher:New York : Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, 1992.
Description:349 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Note:Translation of: Leven en werk van M.C. Escher.
Note:Originally published: New York : H.N. Abrams, 1982.
Note:M.C. Escher's "The regular division of the plane": p. 155-172.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 345) and indexes.
Note:Biographical chronology -- Preface -- Escher Senior 1843-1939 -- Early life 1898-1922 -- Italy and Spain 1922-1924 -- Rome 1924-1935 -- Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941 -- Back in Holland 1941-1954 -- Letters to Arthur 1955-1957 -- Crystallographers' recognition 1958-1960 -- Voyage to Canada 1960 -- The final years 1961-1972 -- The vision of a mathematician -- The regular division of the plane -- Catalogue -- Notes on the illustrations -- Concordance.
Note:Since Escher's death in 1972, at the age of seventy-three, much previously unpublished material has become available to his biographers, who have put it to good use. The story of the artist's life is told here with the help of virtually his entire correspondence, the journals of his travels, and, to supply the facts about his youthful years, the journals kept by his father.
