Author(s): M C Escher

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M. C. Escher cultivated contradictions; the world of his art was a deliberate violation of reality, logic, and everyday expectations. Yet there is nothing chaotic in Escher's imagery. A fish may mutate into a goose, stairs may climb at angles denounced by gravity, water may run uphill, but the clean, rational lines of these prints transcend the rules of the possible, achieving a logic beyond logic. The twelve inventive images presented here include Ascending and Descending, Drawing Hands and Magic Mirror.