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==Usage in art== In Escher's ''Belvedere'' a boy seated at the foot of a building holds an impossible cube. A drawing of the related [[Necker cube]] (with its crossings circled) lies at his feet, while the building itself shares some of the same impossible features as the cube.<ref>{{citation | author = Bruno Ernst (Hans de Rijk) | editor1-last = Schattschneider | editor1-first = D. | editor1-link = Doris Schattschneider | editor2-last = Emmer | editor2-first = M. | contribution = Selection is Distortion | pages = 5β16 | publisher = Springer | title = M. C. Escher's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration | year = 2003}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title= Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits|author=John D. Barrow|author-link=John D. Barrow|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|isbn=9780195130829|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jRa1a4pD5IC&pg=PA14}}</ref> Other artists than Escher, including [[Jos De Mey]], have also made artworks featuring the impossible cube.<ref>{{citation |author=Jos De Mey |author-link=Jos De Mey| editor1-last = Schattschneider | editor1-first = D. | editor2-last = Emmer | editor2-first = M. | contribution = Painting After M. C. Escher | pages = 130β141 | publisher = Springer | title = M. C. Escher's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration | year = 2003}}</ref> A doctored photograph purporting to be of an impossible cube was published in the June 1966 issue of ''[[Scientific American]]'', where it was called a "Freemish crate".<ref name="new angle"/><ref>{{citation|author=C. F. Cochran|year=1966|title=Letters|journal=[[Scientific American]]|volume=214|issue=5 |page=8|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0566-8 }}</ref> An impossible cube has also been featured on an [[Austria]]n [[postage stamp]].<ref>{{citation|title=Stamping Through Mathematics|author=Robin J. Wilson|publisher=Springer|year=2001|isbn=9780387989495|page=102|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vT1J3KOYkI0C&pg=PA102}}</ref>
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