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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0054961862894 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Acorn Media Languages: Manufacturer: Acorn Media MPN: ACRDAMP8628D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Acorn Media Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 11, 2006 Running Time: 50 minutes Studio: Acorn Media Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 04/11/2006 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - M.C. Escher I am an art teacher and was looking for a good video on Escher. This was not it. I could hardly stay awake watching it; so I definately didn't show it to the students. There were a few pieces of interesting information but there were more photographs and animations of Escher's work with background elevator music. I was looking for an informative video on Escher's life; this was not it. Rating:  - Wonderful; NOT the definitive documentaryThe definitive video documentary of M.C. Escher does not exist. Trust me, I've looked. Such a video would portray the graphic artist's life, personality, and psyche convincingly. It would map his creative process, charting change and growth across his lifespan. It would feature friends, family, artists, perceptual scientists, mathematicians and philosophers. It would explain the mathematical gymnastics and perceptual principles underlying fantastic images and illusions. It would show antecedents ... Read More Rating: - An explanation of the math Escher usedMaurits Cornelis Escher was an amazing artist as well as a superb applied mathematician. His figures apply various forms of symmetry in ways that can keep you looking for hours, at the end of which you will find yet another pattern inside those you saw when you first looked. While somewhat primitive, the computer animations of the figures allow you to better visualize how the figure was constructed. The most illustrative techniques are when the narrator uses a simple device of a tack in the figure. ... Read More Rating: - A cerebral look at a remarkable artistI am glad I viewed Acorn Media's "The Life and Works of M.C. Escher" before this tape. Although the tapes overlap a bit on the biographical details, "The Fascinating World" gives a much deeper insight into Escher's art. Particularly interesting are the analyses of some of his more famous tessellations, made more comprehensible by rotating transparent outlines around pivot points to show how the artist planned his patterns. Particularly interesting is the explanation of his false-perspective prints by ... Read More 
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