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In 1934, the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd created, with an uncommon arrangement of cubes, what has become known as an ‘impossible triangle’. In 1980, the Swedish government honoured the inventive artist by commissioning photographs of three of his works for Swedish stamps. The stamps were produced in 1982 and issued for about two years.
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See J. A. W. Heffernan (1993) Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), p. 3.
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Bruhn, S. (2010). Penrose, ‘seeing is Believing’: Intentionality, Mediation and Comprehension in the Arts. In: Elleström, L. (eds) Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230275201_9
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