But when his father read the first draft he complained that there were no pictures.
Hofstadter admitted, when I interviewed him for the Barbican project, that the book was going to have an academic title about the human brain that did not refer to Escher or Bach. And yet the image confuses us because we can’t work out which is the primary layer. An image of a hand drawing a hand seems to imply the first hand is in a world above the drawn hand. Or the image of two hands each drawing the other. Think about the famous Escher image of the monks climbing a quadrangle of squares that seem to keep climbing and yet, at full circle the monks step on to the stair they started from. Circular proposition … the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher.
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