| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Escher, M. C. |
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(Maurits Cornelis Escher) (môr´ ts kôrn ´l s  sh´r, Du. s´khr) (KEY) , 1898–1972, Dutch artist. Primarily a graphic artist, Escher composed works notable for their irony, often with impossible perspectives rendered with mechanical verisimilitude. He created visual riddles, playing with the pictorially logical and the visually impossible. | 1 | | See M. C. Escher, Escher on Escher (tr. 1989); B. Ernst, The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher (tr. 1976, repr. 1994). | 2 |
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