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Artists have many sources of ideas, just as they have a favorite medium. Here I describe how I was inspired by the work of poets William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe and writer Jules Verne to create etchings with double meaning. My artworks interpret their writings and also encode hidden anamorphic portraits of the writers, revealed only through viewing in a special way. For Poe, I not only used his poem The Raven but also his essay The Philosophy of Composition to guide my creation process, just as he did for the poem.
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The article has been published in Bridges Pécs, Conference proceeding of Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science held 24–28 July 2010 in Pécs, Hungary, edited by George W. Hart and Reza Sarhangi, 239–246. Phoenix: Tessellations Publishing, 2010. Portions of the article have also been published in: Orosz, István (2009) “Poem and poet from an anamorphic point of view.” Journal of Mathematics and Arts 3:4: 171–184.
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Orosz, I. (2017). Art with a Double Meaning. In: Fenyvesi, K., Lähdesmäki, T. (eds) Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Art and Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57259-8_14
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