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The Worlds Of M.C. Escher

WUNC News | By Anita Rao,
Frank Stasio
Published December 4, 2015 at 12:09 PM EST

A look at MC Escher's work with North Carolina Museum of Art curator David Steel; Karen Daniels, professor of physics at North Carolina State University; and Merrill Shatzman, professor of the practice of visual art at Duke University

Dutch-born printmaker M.C. Escher was a meticulous artist who drew inspiration from landscapes and the natural world. Although he had no formal scientific training, his work features complex mathematical objects and scenarios.

The exhibit “The Worlds of M.C. Escher: Nature, Science, and Imagination” on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art through January is the most comprehensive Escher exhibition ever presented in the U.S.

Host Frank Stasio previews the exhibit with curator David Steel; Karen Daniels, professor of physics at North Carolina State University; and Merrill Shatzman, professor of the practice of visual art at Duke University.

'Belvedere,' 1958, lithograph, 18 1/4x 11 5/8 in.
/ The M.C. Escher Company
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The M.C. Escher Company
'Belvedere,' 1958, lithograph, 18 1/4x 11 5/8 in.
'Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror),' 1935, lithograph, 12 1/2x 8 3/8 in.
/ The M.C. Escher Company
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The M.C. Escher Company
'Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror),' 1935, lithograph, 12 1/2x 8 3/8 in.
Waterfall, 1961, lithograph, 15 x 11 3/4 in.
/ The M.C. Escher Company
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The M.C. Escher Company
Waterfall, 1961, lithograph, 15 x 11 3/4 in.

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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