From the reviews:

"... It is a handsome volume, and contains articles from 41 people, which cover a wide range of artistic and analytical endeavour. ... A quick dip into each section produces small gems. ... there is enough here to provide rich pickings for any interested party, no matter what their particular discipline is.... the CD-ROM ... is an excellent addition to the book, and contains much more material, including "video" excerpts from some of the lectures." * Australian Math. Soc. GAZETTE May 2003

• Klappentext

  Softcover printing of a popular title (h/c sold over 400 copies in North America) at a price that will make it accessible to a much wider audience

  Richly illustrated with original art works in addition to well-known and little-known works by Escher

  A CD-ROM complements the articles, containing color illustrations of work by contemporary artists, movies, animations, and other demonstrations

  Inhalt

  Escher's Fondness for Animals.- Selection is Distortion.- Ravello: An Escherian Place.- Mystery, Classicism, Elegance: an Endless Chase After Magic.- M.C. Escher and C.v.S. Roosevelt.- Escher's Sense of Wonder.- In Search of M.C. Escher's Metaphysical Unconscious.- Parallel Worlds: Escher and Mathematics, Revisited.- M.C. Escher in Italy: The Trail Back.- Islamic Patterns: The Spark in Escher's Genius.- Space Time with M.C. Escher and R. Buckminster Fuller.- Between Illusion and Reality.- Painting After M.C. Escher.- M.C. Escher: Art, Math, and Cinema.- Organic Structures Related to M.C. Escher's Work.- Extending Escher's Recognizable-Motif Tilings to Multiple-Solution Tilings and Fractal Tilings.- A Circle Limit in Stone.- Portrait of Escher: Behind the Mirror.- Life After Escher: A (Young) Artist's Journey.- Sharing some Common Interests of M.C. Escher.- New Expressions in Tessellating Art: Layered Three-Dimensional Tessellations.- The Mirrors of the Master.- Tilings and Other Unusual Escher-Related Prints.- Escher-Like Patterns from Pentagonal Tilings.- Not the Tiles, but the Joints: A little Bridge Between M.C. Escher and Leonardo da Vinci.- Architecture, Perspective and Scenography in the Graphic Work of M.C. Escher: From Vredeman de Vries to Luca Ronconi.- Hand with Reflective Sphere to Six-Point Perspective Sphere.- Families of Escher Patterns.- The Trigonometry of Escher's Woodcut Circle Limit III.- Escher in the Classroom.- Chaotic Geodesic Motion: An Extension of M.C. Escher's Circle Limit Designs.- Rotations and Notations.- Folding Rings of Eight Cubes.- Dethronement of the Symmetry Plane.- Computer Games Based on Escher's Spatial Illusions.- Escher's World: Structure, Symmetry, Sense.- Adapting Escher's Rules for "Regular Division of the Plane" to Create TesselMania!.- M.C. Escher at the Museum: An Educator's Perspective.- Escher, Napoleon, Fermat and the Nine-point Centre.- The Symmetry Mystique.- Escher-Like Tessellations on Spherical Models.