Chris Mortensen

The Impossible Arises (eBook, ePUB)

Oscar Reutersvärd and His Contemporaries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Impossible Arises explores the life and work of Oscar Reutersvärd (1916-2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvärd drew the first impossible triangle. Over the course of his life he would go on to draw around 4000 impossible figures and be honored by the Swedish government with an issue of stamps showing his work.

Based on a large collection of Reutersvärd's art and correspondence held at the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington, the lavishly illustrated Impossible Arises examines the evolution of Reutersvärd's impossible figures and how they influenced other modern artists in the later twentieth century.

The Impossible Arises offers a detailed look at the philosophy guiding Reutersvärd's art and presents a rich array of stories from his eccentric personal life. It is an essential introduction to the life and career of one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253062352
• Artikelnr.: 64218675

Autorenporträt

Chris Mortensen is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. He is author of Inconsistent Mathematics and Inconsistent Geometry.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part One: Oscar Reutersvärd
1. Introducing Oscar
2. More Oscar
3. What Did Oscar Think He Was Doing?
4. Critique of Oscar's Philosophy
5. On Encountering Oscar Reutersvärd, by Catherine Speck
Part Two: M. C. Escher
6. Escher and the Penroses Discover Each Other
7. How to Talk About Weird Things
8. Escher and Impossibilia
Part Three: Contemporaries
9. Richard Pybus
10. Bruno Ernst
11. Those Who Followed After, a Chronology
12. Conclusion
Appendix: The Collection by Bruno Ernst of Drawings and Letters from Oscar
Reutersvärd in The Lilly Library at Indiana University
References