Ambigrammia
between creation and discovery
$98.34
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2025
Summary
Ambigrammia: The Art of Twofold Seeing
On the history and creation of ambigrams, by a pioneer of the practice
In the 1960s and 1970s, a trio of imaginative individuals independently discovered that ordinary words and phrases could be given double readings by playfully distorting the letters composing them. These doubly readable words and phrases, if designed by an artistic eye and hand, could possess great visual beauty. Douglas Hofstadter named such calligr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300275438 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300275439 |
| Author: | Scott Kim, Douglas Hofstadter |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 255mm x 183mm |
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About The Author
Scott Kim
Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. 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. Aside from being a cognitive scientist focused on analogy-making, he is engaged in art, music, and translation.
Scott Kim is a puzzle creator and graphic designer who has been making ambigrams since the 1970s. His 1981 book Inversions: A Catalog of Calligraphic Cartwheels was the first book of ambigrams ever published.
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