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    <body><![CDATA[Like most high school and college students, I went through an Escher phase.  Without the aid of psychotropic substances or any sort of interest in vaguely mathematical patterns, mind you, so it didn't last long, but still, it happened, and this was the book I bought as it was going on.  And, you kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7816828">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These are no ordinary paintings by an ordinary artist. They bend the rules or reality, and you have to regard them as puzzles to be solved. Twist your mind around them to see what they are and how they do it for full effect. <br/>There are several different types, combinations of abstract mathemati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79110316">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of some of Escher's more well known illustrations, and if I remember correctly they were ordered chronologically, giving some sense of &quot;progress&quot; over the course of his career. Nice drawings, but very light on the writing; there is almost no explanation or context prov...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book right after I graduated and happened to meet my high school art teacher while I had it on me. He was not easily impressed, but I remember that he said “this guy has it all, creativity and technique.” I gave my copy to my son, along with my appreciation of his work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cool pictures! This edition contains comments from the artist explaining what he was trying to accomplish and where he felt he succeeded and failed. His insight adds a lot to the appreciation of familiar images. It's a fun volume to leaf through frequently. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[as any good mathematician, i am of course fascinated by escher's work - but then i realized that this is on rage against the machine's reading list. who knew?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. Drawings fascinated me so many years ago when I got this book.  I could look at it for hours.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredibly skilled, often strikingly beautiful, sometimes whimsical and sometimes disturbing.  The soul revealed through these images is a strange one; sometimes it seems as if he had one foot in the future and the other in the middle ages.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of the striking and original graphic work of M.C. Escher.]]></body>
    
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