Preface
Part One: Oscar Reutersvärd
1. Introducing Oscar
2. More Oscar
3. What Did Oscar Think He Was Doing?
4. Critique of Oscar's Philosophy
5. On Encountering Oscar Reutersvärd, by Catherine Speck
Part Two: M. C. Escher
6. Escher and the Penroses
Discover Each Other
7. How to Talk About Weird Things
8. Escher and Impossibilia
Part Three: Contemporaries
9. Richard Pybus
10. Bruno Ernst
11. Those Who Followed After, a Chronology
12. Conclusion
Appendix: The Collection by Bruno Ernst of Drawings and Letters
from Oscar Reutersvärd in The Lilly Library at Indiana
University
References
Chris Mortensen is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. He is author of Inconsistent Mathematics and Inconsistent Geometry.
"Mortensen's book is a captivating and unique combination of art
history and philosophical reflection. It will fascinate any
thoughtful reader and is required reading for anyone
interested in the genre of "impossible pictures." Someone who reads
the book will never see such pictures in quite the same way
again."—Graham Priest, The Graduate Center, City University of New
York
"Whoever believes that thinking about the impossible must be itself
impossible, should read this book. Combining art, art history,
logic and philosophy, the reader will explore the richly structured
world of impossibilia. The book's title is indeed true: Chris
Mortensen makes the impossible arise."—Jean Paul Van Bendegem,
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
"This is a beautiful book about impossible pictures and the people
who draw them. Art, mathematics, philosophy, and history meet in a
huge gallery of mind-bending paradoxical images. Mortensen brings
long experience and a light touch as he guides us through this
strange corner of geometry."—Zach Weber, University of Otago
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