A review by cetian
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work by M.C. Escher

4.0

We would think this art is recent, so smooth and precise it looks. I always wonder what it would be like to see the images of artists like Escher and Haeckel in their own time, long before television and with photography still in its infancy. This was the period of transition, when images still had a sacred quality to them, bringing to life beings and ideas. They carried both the tradition of centuries and the contradiction of being harbingers of modernity. This period is probably more interesting than the decades after of complete deconstruction. Looking at this art, when a full life would be filled with as much images as we now see in a week is hard for me to imagine. What would it be like?