M.C. Escher - The Official Website

When browsing Sid Smith's web page Platonic Realms [http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/] I bumped on a link to the official web site, devoted on the life and the work of Escher, finally. In the subsection gallery you would find probably most of his work, available for download. As a separate collection are given the popular variations on the symmetry theme. Argubly being the most popular artist among philosophers and especially among philosophers of science [and in particular - space-time freaks] Escher's work reproduction could be found in a lot of books and articles, illustrating space properties or simply attempts to visualize non-Euclidean space. Personally, I disagree with the last interpretation being taken for successful for reasons best exposed by J.R. Lukas in his Euclides Ab Omni Naevo Vindicatus. Nevertheless the mind seems to struggle endlessly to cope with Escher's visions using nothing but its own [in my oppinion - Euclidean] limitations.