Word: escher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play about feelings of powerlessness and ignorance of the world around you,” Hodgson says. The themes of play will be reflected not only in the interactions between actors, he says, but in the inventive stage set-up that will incorporate trick staircases and M.C. Escher-inspired backdrops...
...exhibit space that has no exhibit, an unpopularity amongst undergraduates so decimating that it has a post-apocalyptic feeling. But I love Hilles— the way it looms, bright-lit, above you suddenly as you leave Garden Street, its layered staircases as complex as those in an Escher engraving; the way the low-slung Scandinavian Modern chairs bear mismatched cushions, piled in quixotic efforts to render them more comfortable; the way that you can claim entire floors for yourself—an impossibility in densely-peopled Lamont. I love that someone had a modernist vision so complete that...
...work led him to collaborations with Buckminster Fuller ’19 and M.C. Escher, and for over 30 years he taught in Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies...
...industrial, Everyman material," Stearns explains. "And because it's made from cork dust, it has a surprisingly pliable plushness." Along with marketing partner M. Dwight Freeman, he launched Westling Design, offering his durable, handmade creations in bold grid, dot and zigzag patterns that recall art by Mondrian, Kandinsky and Escher. They're not cheap--priced at around $40 per sq. ft., a 6-ft. by 8-ft. area rug costs nearly $2,000. But just think of all those hours you'll save on vacuuming...
...tacit defiance, one of Peter Richards's sculptures mischievously calls out a challenge to M.C. Escher's ants. The sculpture, a hyper-rotated Mbius strip made of discarded metal vent-covers and fibrous tissue paper, partially lacquered with beeswax, is titled "Sleep with Me." Richards claims with all honesty that this is not meant to be an overt sexual solicitation. "It's more of an invitation," he says, to experience what he calls "osmosis," an existence as form rather than idea. But it's difficult to look at "Bride" and not see in it a female praying mantis made...