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Posted: July 26 2006 at 7:00pm | IP Logged Quote ladybugs
We recently went to our local art museum where MC Escher's work was exhibited.

Does anyone have any recommendations on any books about him? His art?

Any ideas for projects?

TIA!

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Posted: July 27 2006 at 11:53am | IP Logged Quote ladybugs
Hi...it's me again...I don't want this relugated to the archives before someone answers

So, I'm bumping up my own question.

Muchas gracias....

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Posted: July 27 2006 at 12:34pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
Wish Libby were here. She's our Escher buff.

If you like odd films, Labyrinth (David Bowie, Jennifer Connolly) has an Escher scene...may be too intense for younger audiences.

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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 4:19pm | IP Logged Quote Anne Marie M
OOOOOOOOOOOh, I'ma huge Escher fan. . . I'll see if I can find some of my books to give you the titles. Bump this up if I haven't listed them in a day or so!

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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 6:20pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
The logical project would be to do some tesselations.
I really like this website. It gives info on Escher and tesselations and tips on how to do your own, using several methods. Tesselations were a big hit with my middle schoolers when I taught in public schools.
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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 7:20pm | IP Logged Quote ladybugs
lapazfarm wrote:
The logicxal project would be to do some tesselations.


I was thinking about this but haven't done anything to facilitate it...

I was wondering if anyone knew of some short stories of his life....or some living books...just to give some background info.

My children are still young (ages 5-9) so I don't want it to be too much but to have a little meat.

Thanks for the idea.

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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 10:06pm | IP Logged Quote Anne Marie M
A good book with lots of reproductions which divides his drawings into different types of images (regular division of a plane, spatial rings and spirals, mirror images, etc.) is The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher (ISBN #0-517-38573-2). It's available used from Amazon.

If you've got the textbook Discovering Geometry, it's got a great section on tesselations. Also, there's a kit called M.C. Escher Kaleidocycles (also at Amazon) that looks like fun - but we keep putting it off .

Several years ago I found a calendar with Escher prints - sorry, I don't remember where.

Have fun!

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