M.C. Escher’s Legacy: A Centennial Celebration

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From the reviews of the hardcover edition: "... This conference [an international congress held in June of 1998 in Rome and Ravello, Italy, to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Escher] resulted in an immensely interesting collection of articles presented in the book M.C.Escher's Legacy, A Centennial Celebration". ... Although Escher himself is no longer among us, M.C.Escher's Legacy, like a garden of continually blooming flowers, allows us to appreciate his heritage anew." Reza Sarhangi, Notices of the AMS, April 2003 "... It is a handsome volume, and contains articles from 41 people, which cover a wide range of artistic and analytical endeavour. ... A quick dip into each section produces small gems. ... there is enough here to provide rich pickings for any interested party, no matter what their particular discipline is. Embedded in the various articles are even snippets which illuminate Escher's intentions, and his relationships with his mathematician friends (Coxeter, Penrose, Ernst et al). Even though short, these are rewarding to read. If you are an educator in any of the fields mentioned in the paragraph below, this book is immediately worth a look... If I was a librarian of an institution which encompassed any two of fine arts, mathematics philosophy, physical science, psychology, I would definitely demand its purchase: if as many as three of them, demand it loudly! ... the CD-ROM ... is an excellent addition to the book, and contains much more material, including "video" excerpts from some of the lectures.)" Warren Brisley, Australian Mathematical Society GAZETTE, Volume 30, Number 2, May 2003 Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Escher’s Fondness for Animals....Pages 1-4 Selection is Distortion....Pages 5-16 Ravello: An Escherian Place....Pages 17-23 Mystery, Classicism, Elegance: an Endless Chase After Magic....Pages 24-51 M.C. Escher and C.v.S. Roosevelt....Pages 52-62 Escher’s Sense of Wonder....Pages 63-68 In Search of M.C. Escher’s Metaphysical Unconscious....Pages 69-82 Parallel Worlds: Escher and Mathematics, Revisited....Pages 83-91 M.C. Escher in Italy: The Trail Back....Pages 92-99 Islamic Patterns: The Spark in Escher’s Genius....Pages 100-112 Space Time with M.C. Escher and R. Buckminster Fuller....Pages 113-124 Between Illusion and Reality....Pages 125-129 Painting After M.C. Escher....Pages 130-141 M.C. Escher: Art, Math, and Cinema....Pages 142-149 Organic Structures Related to M.C. Escher’s Work....Pages 150-153 Extending Escher’s Recognizable-Motif Tilings to Multiple-Solution Tilings and Fractal Tilings....Pages 154-165 A Circle Limit in Stone....Pages 166-174 Portrait of Escher: Behind the Mirror....Pages 175-188 Life After Escher: A (Young) Artist’s Journey....Pages 189-198 Sharing some Common Interests of M.C. Escher....Pages 199-206 New Expressions in Tessellating Art: Layered Three-Dimensional Tessellations....Pages 207-214 The Mirrors of the Master....Pages 215-229 Tilings and Other Unusual Escher-Related Prints....Pages 230-243 Escher-Like Patterns from Pentagonal Tilings....Pages 244-251 Not the Tiles, but the Joints: A little Bridge Between M.C. Escher and Leonardo da Vinci....Pages 252-264 Architecture, Perspective and Scenography in the Graphic Work of M.C. Escher: From Vredeman de Vries to Luca Ronconi....Pages 265-274 Hand with Reflective Sphere to Six-Point Perspective Sphere....Pages 275-285 Families of Escher Patterns....Pages 286-296 The Trigonometry of Escher’s Woodcut Circle Limit III ....Pages 297-304 Escher in the Classroom....Pages 305-317 Chaotic Geodesic Motion: An Extension of M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit Designs....Pages 318-333 Rotations and Notations....Pages 334-342 Folding Rings of Eight Cubes....Pages 343-352 Dethronement of the Symmetry Plane....Pages 353-365 Computer Games Based on Escher’s Spatial Illusions....Pages 366-378 Escher’s World: Structure, Symmetry, Sense....Pages 379-392 Adapting Escher’s Rules for “Regular Division of the Plane” to Create TesselMania! ® ....Pages 393-407 M.C. Escher at the Museum: An Educator’s Perspective....Pages 408-419 Escher, Napoleon, Fermat and the Nine-point Centre....Pages 420-426 The Symmetry Mystique....Pages 427-441 Escher-Like Tessellations on Spherical Models....Pages 442-447 Back Matter....Pages 448-458