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Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery
On the history and creation of ambigrams, by a pioneer of the practice “Spellbinding and truly one-of-a-kind. . . . This is an absolute delight.”—Pub...
Douglas Hofstadter named such calligraphic creations “ambigrams,” and over the decades he has designed thousands of them, as have his friends Scott Kim and John Langdon, the other main pioneers of the subtle art form he calls ambigrammia. His books include the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; I Am a Strange Loop; and Surfaces and Essences. Written in a disarming, conversational tone that belies Hofstadter’s mastery of the subject matter, and lavishly illustrated with full-color diagrams on nearly every page, this is an absolute delight.”— Publishers Weekly(starred review)
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