Another World II |
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Artist |
M. C. Escher |
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Year |
1947 |
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Type |
woodcut |
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Dimensions |
31.8 cm × 26.1 cm (12.5 in × 10.3 in) |
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Another World II, also known as Other World II, is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1947.
It depicts a cubic architectural structure made from brick. The structure is a paradox with an open archway on each of the five visible sides of the cube. The structure wraps around the vertical axis to enclose the viewer's perspective. At the bottom of the image is an archway which we seem to be looking up from the base, and through it we can see space. At the top of that arch is another arch which is level with our perspective, and through it we are looking out over a lunar horizon. At the top of that arch is another arch which covers the top of the image. We are looking down at this arch from above and through it onto the lunar surface.
Standing in each archway along the vertical axis is a metal sculpture of a bird with a humanoid face. In each side archway is a horn or cornucopia hanging on chains. The views from above and below are consistent, placing the statue so that it faces the horn, however the horizontal view reverses the relative positions of the statue and the horn, and rotates the horn 180 degrees.
The previous month (December 1946), Escher created a mezzotint called Another World (Other World Gallery). The image in that print is the same as this one except that the arches continue on as an infinite corridor.
The bird/human sculpture is a real sculpture which was given to Escher by his father-in-law. This sculpture first appears in Escher's 1934 lithograph Still Life with Spherical Mirror.
The picture is featured in the cover of the 1965 edition of Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.
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Works | 1910s |
- Escher's Father
- Bookplate Bastiaan Kist
- Chrysanthemum
- Head of a child
- Skull
- Railway Bridge, Oosterbeek
- Mascot
- Portrait of a Man (I)
- Self-Portrait (I)
- Baby
- Young Thrush
- Bookplate M. C. Escher
- Self-Portrait (II)
- Jug
- The Rag Pickers
- Fiet van Stolk
- Waves
- Self-Portrait (III)
- White Cat (I)
- The Borger Oak
- Portrait
- Seated Man with cat on his lap
- Tree
- Self-Portrait (IV)
- Parrot
- White Cat (II)
- Sea-shell
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1920s |
- Self Portrait in a Chair
- Rabbits
- Female Nude in a Landscape
- Wild West
- The Fall of Men
- Escher's Father with Magnifying Glass
- Portrait of a Man (II)
- Man Standing
- Seated Old Woman
- Flower
- Seated Female Nude (I)
- Seated Female Nude (II)
- Seated Female Nude (III)
- Roosje Ingen Housz
- Poster
- Plane-filling Motif with Human Figures
- Paradise
- Seated Female Nude (IV)
- Seated Female Nude (V)
- Hand with Fir Cone
- St Francis
- Eight Heads
- Eagle, vignette
- Dolphins
- San Gimignano
- Self-Portrait (V)
- Portrait of Jetta
- Vitorchiano nel Cimino
- The First Day of the Creation
- The Sixth Day of Creation
- The Fall of Man
- Procession in Crypt
- Rome
- Castle in the Air
- Tower of Babel
- Fara San Martino, Abruzzi
- Corte, Corsica
- The Drowned Cathedral
- Infant Arthur Escher
- Self-Portrait (VI)
- Barbarano, Cimino
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1930s |
- Street in Scanno, Abruzzi
- Castrovalva
- The Bridge
- Fiumara, Calabria
- Tropea, Calabria
- Cloister near Rocca Imperiale, Calabria
- Atrani, Coast of Amalfi
- Covered Alley in Atrani
- Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi
- Coast of Amalfi
- Farmhouse, Ravello
- San Cosimo, Ravello
- Turello, Southern Italy
- Porta Maria dell'Ospidale, Ravello
- Lion of the Fountain in the Piazza at Ravello
- San Michele dei Frisone, Rome
- Mumified Priests in Gangi, Sicily
- Temple of Segeste, Sicily
- Cave Dwellings (near Sperlinga) Sicily
- Palm
- Caltavuturo in the Madonie Mountains Sicily
- Cloister of Monreale Sicily
- Lava Flow of 1928 from Etna Sicily
- Pineta of Calvi, Corsica
- Phosphorescent Sea
- Fireworks
- Old Olive Tree, Corsica
- Nonza, Corsica
- Still Life with Mirror
- Nocturnal Rome: Colonade of St Peter's
- Nocturnal Rome: Santa Maria del Popolo
- Nocturnal Rome: Trajan's Column
- Nocturnal Rome: Basilica of Constantine
- Nocturnal Rome: Castel Sant' Angelo
- Nocturnal Rome: Colosseum
- Aeroplane above Snowy Landscape
- Still Life with Spherical Mirror
- Hand with Reflecting Sphere
- Regular Division of the Plane
- Inside St Peter's
- Portrait of G.A. Escher
- Sengela, Malta
- Hell, copy after Hieronymus Bosch
- Snow
- Prickly Flower
- House in the Lava near Nunziata, Sicily
- Still Life and Street
- Metamorphosis I
- Development I
- Day and Night
- Cycle
- Sky and Water I
- Sky and Water II
- Entrance to the Oude Kerk, Delft
- Development II (I)
- Development II (II)
- Oostpoort, Delft
- Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
- Town Hall, Delft
- Voldersgracht, Delft
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1940s |
- Metamorphosis II
- Bookplate Dr. P.H.M. Travaglino
- Horse (No. 8)
- Sea Horse (No. 11)
- Lizard (No. 15)
- Eagle (No. 17)
- Two Birds (No. 18)
- Fish (No. 20)
- Clowns (No. 21)
- Bird / Fish (No. 22)
- Lizard (No. 25)
- Three Birds (No. 28)
- Fish
- Plane-filling Motif with Reptiles
- Bird / Fish (No. 34)
- Bird / Fish (No. 34B)
- Dragonfly (No. 38)
- Crab (No. 40)
- Two Fish (No. 41)
- Shells and Starfish (No. 42)
- Bird (No. 44)
- Angel-Devil (No. 45)
- Verbum
- Two Fish (No. 46)
- Frog (No. 51)
- Fish (No. 55)
- Lizard (No. 56)
- Two Fish (No. 57)
- Two Fish (No. 58)
- Two Fish (No. 59)
- Two Lizards (No. 60)
- Reptiles
- Ant
- Blowball (I)
- Blowball (II)
- Encounter
- Two Creatures (No. 61)
- Devil (No. 62)
- Pessimist-Optimist (No. 63)
- Balcony
- Doric Columns
- Three Spheres I
- Diploma Tijdelijke Academie, Eindhoven
- Winged Lion (No. 66)
- Magic Mirror
- Three Spheres II
- Horseman
- Mumified Frog
- Eye
- New Year's greeting-card
- Gallery
- Horseman (No. 67)
- Another World
- Up and Down
- Drawing Hands
- Dewdrop
- Sun and Moon
- Study for Stars
- Stars
- Fish / Duck / Lizard (No. 69)
- Butterfly (No. 70)
- Fish / Boat (No. 72)
- New Year's greeting card
- Plane-filling Motif with Birds
- Regular Division of the Plane with Birds
- Sea-shells
- Fish and Frogs
- Double Planetoid
- Flying Fish (No. 73)
- Horse / Bird (No. 76)
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1950s |
- Order and Chaos
- Rippled Surface
- Devils (vignette)
- Unicorn (No. 78)
- Flying Fish / Bird (No. 80)
- Predestination
- Plane Filling I
- Curl-up
- House of Stairs
- Bird / Fish (No. 82)
- Thirty-Six Different Motifs (No. 83)
- Bird / Fish (No. 8)
- Two Intersecting Planes
- Puddle
- Dragon
- Gravitation
- Lizard / Fish / Bat (No. 85)
- Two Birds (No. 87)
- Sea Horse (No. 88)
- Concentric Rinds
- Relativity
- Spirals
- Beetle (No. 91)
- Bookplate A.R.A. Wertheim
- Tetrahedral Planetoide
- Fish (No. 93)
- Convex and Concave
- Liberation
- Rind
- Depth
- Three Worlds
- Fish (No. 94)
- Swan (No. 96)
- Swans
- Bond of Union
- Print Gallery
- Division
- Smaller and Smaller
- Lizards (No. 101)
- Cube with Magic Ribbons
- Plane Filling II
- Whirlpools
- Belvedere
- Sphere Surface with Fish
- Sphere Spirals
- Flatworms
- Circle Limit II
- Circle Limit III
- Fishes and Scales
- Lizard (No. 104)
- Pegasus (No. 105)
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