M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
(2021, original release: 2020)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Kino Lorber, 2020
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12461513
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

M.C. ESCHER: JOURNEY TO INFINITY is the story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972). Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait gives us the man through his own words and images: diary musings, excerpts from lectures, correspondence and more are voiced by British actor Stephen Fry, while Escher’s woodcuts, lithographs, and other print works appear in both original and playfully altered form. Two of his sons, George (92) and Jan (80), reminisce about their parents while musician Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) talks about Escher’s rediscovery in the 1970s. The film looks at Escher’s legacy: one can see tributes to his work in movies, in fiction, on posters, on tattoos, and elsewhere throughout our culture; indeed, few fine artists of the 20th century can lay claim to such popular appeal

Film

In Process Record

George Escher, Graham Nash, Jan Escher, Stephen Fry

Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2020

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In Dutch,English,German,Italian

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