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A small street in Savona, near Genoa (Italy), was the origin of the association of ideas to be found in the woodcut Still Life and Street (1937). Here we have two quite distinctly recognizable realities bound together in a natural, and yet at the same time a completely impossible, way. Looked at from the window, the houses make book-rests between which tiny dolls are set up. Looked at from the street, the books stand yards high and a gigantic tobacco jar stands at the crossroads. Acutally, the fitting-together device is a very simple one. The borderline between windowsill and street is despensed with, and the materials of the windowsill merge with those of the street. Reprinted from the text of The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher by Bruno Ernst; with the kind permission of Benedikt-Taschen Publishers
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