Classical Ornament

Author : C. Thierry
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486810003

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Classical Ornament by C. Thierry Pdf

This rare collection, originally published in Germany during the 1860s, presents a wealth of designs from temples and other buildings of ancient Greece and Rome. The seventy-one black-and-white plates include mythological creatures, floral borders, engraved columns and capitals, and many other decorative motifs, all rendered with the delicacy and precision characteristic of classical ornament. A valuable source of royalty-free illustrations, this compilation abounds in images that will provide a touch of authenticity to any graphic project related to ancient Greece or Rome. Fine art aficionados, crafters and designers, and collectors of classical art will rejoice in this inexpensive volume and its hard-to-find artwork.

Author : T. L. J. Howard,Michael Snodin,Maurice Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300064551

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Ornament by T. L. J. Howard,Michael Snodin,Maurice Howard Pdf

In a wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, the authors begin by tracing the ways ornament has been used over the last five centuries, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values it has represented. They examine how architecture set the agenda for ornament in the Renaissance, and how printed images carried a common vocabulary of ornament throughout the Western world. They survey the personal side of ornament, both in dress and in the domestic interior - a private expression of the self and a public statement of social and cultural status. They look at ornament in the public domain - from the lavish decoration and symbolism of a town pageant to the logos of today's corporate industry - and show how the ever-evolving role of ornament is to invent and embody the collective spirit of communities at work and at leisure. They conclude by discussing how the Western tradition of ornament has responded to and absorbed 'exotic' African and Asian motifs: Moresque motifs of the Near East and such familiar designs as the 'Paisley' and Willow" patterns.

Author : Martin J. Powers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684174294

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Pattern and Person by Martin J. Powers Pdf

"In Classical China, crafted artifacts offered a material substrate for abstract thought as graphic paradigms for social relationships. Focusing on the fifth to second centuries B.C., Martin Powers explores how these paradigms continued to inform social thought long after the material substrate had been abandoned. In this detailed study, the author makes the claim that artifacts are never neutral: as a distinctive possession, each object—through the abstracting function of style—offers a material template for scales of value. Likewise, through style, pictorial forms can make claims about material “referents,” the things depicted. By manipulating these scales and their referents, artifacts can shape the way status, social role, or identity is understood and enforced. The result is a kind of “spatial epistemology” within which the identities of persons are constructed. Powers thereby posits a relationship between art and society that operates at a level deeper than iconography, attributes, or social institutions. Historically, Pattern and Person traces the evolution of personhood in China from a condition of hereditary status to one of achieved social role and greater personal choice. This latter development, essential for bureaucratic organization and individual achievement, challenges the conventional opposition between “Western” individuals and “collective” Asians."

Author : Loretta Vandi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351668583

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Ornament and European Modernism by Loretta Vandi Pdf

These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, the contributors show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament is imbued with historical and social meaning.

Author : Slavik V. Jablan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9812380809

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Symmetry, Ornament and Modularity by Slavik V. Jablan Pdf

This book discusses the origins of ornamental art -- illustrated by the oldest examples, dating mostly from the paleolithic and neolithic ages, and considered from the theory-of-symmetry point of view. Because of its multidisciplinary nature, it will interest a wide range of readers: mathematicians, artists, art historians, architects, psychologists, and anthropologists. The book represents the complete analysis of plane symmetry structures, so it can be used by artists as a guide to the creation of new symmetry patterns. Some parts of the contents (such as Chapter 4, about conformal symmetry, and Chapter 6, about modularity in art) give the reader an opportunity to develop computer programs for producing images illustrating the corresponding symmetry forms.

Author : C. Thierry
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486799650

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Classical Ornament by C. Thierry Pdf

"'Classical Ornament,' first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2016, contains all the plates from 'Classiche Ornamente,' originally published by J. Veith, Carlsruhe, Germany, ca. 186-"--Title page vers

Author : Augustus C. Pugin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486155425

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Pugin's Gothic Ornament by Augustus C. Pugin Pdf

This classic sourcebook of decorative motifs contains 100 plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements from such architectural landmarks as New College Chapel at Oxford and Rouen Cathedral.

Author : Ralph Nicholson Wornum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001645606

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Analysis of Ornament. The Characteristics of Styles by Ralph Nicholson Wornum Pdf

Author : Taner Oc,Steve Tiesdell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136350412

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Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration by Taner Oc,Steve Tiesdell Pdf

'Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration' focuses on decorating the city and how ornament has been used to bring delight to the urban scene. The authors show how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and by the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. This second edition, updated by Cliff Moughtin and now available in paperback, includes a new chapter on mud architecture. Case studies of city decoration are also outlined to bring together the ideas discussed and to show how ornament and decoration can be used to emphasize the five components of city form: the path, the node, the edge, the landmark and the district.

Author : Rafael Schacter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317085003

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Ornament and Order by Rafael Schacter Pdf

Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over whether these acts are vandalism or art, and which examine the role of graffiti in gang culture and in terms of visual pollution. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world’s most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are seen to reface rather than deface the city, operating within a modality of contemporary civic ritual. The book is divided into two main sections, Ornament and Order. Ornament focuses upon the physical artifacts themselves, the various meanings these public artists ascribe to their images as well as the tensions and communicative schemata emerging out of their material form. Using two very different understandings of political action, it places these illicit icons within the wider theoretical debate over the public sphere that they materially re-present. Order is focused more closely on the ephemeral trace of these spatial acts, the explicitly performative, practice-based elements of their aesthetic production. Exploring thematics such as carnival and play, risk and creativity, it tracks how the very residue of this cultural production structures and shapes the socio-ethico guidelines of these artists’ lifeworlds.

Author : George L. Hersey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262580896

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The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture by George L. Hersey Pdf

By analyzing this poetry - the tropes founded on the Greek terms for ornamental detail - he reconstructs a classical theory about the origin and meaning of the orders, one that links them to ancient sacrificial ritual and myth.

Author : Ernst Günther
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486153933

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800 Classic Ornaments and Designs by Ernst Günther Pdf

Graphic artists, illustrators, and craftspeople will welcome this treasury of beautifully engraved ornate frames, scrollwork, and other highly decorative designs — 800 in all — reproduced from an extremely rare mid-19th-century style book. Comprising 142 plates, the volume features a lavish assortment of ornaments, bedecked with flowers, mythological creatures, and other fanciful touches, all beautifully rendered in meticulous detail. Other striking designs incorporate a rich selection of classical columns, plus heraldic designs — shields, coats-of-arms, seals, and insignias from Austria, Russia, Denmark, France, and many other countries — for a touch of medieval flair or aristocratic ambience. In addition, this collection offers a variety of charming calligraphic alphabets in styles ranging from plain to majestic. An invaluable source of inspiration and a treasury of designs for permission-free use, these distinctive images are ideal for enhancing such print projects as ads, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, catalog copy, and much more.

Author : James Ward
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : EAN:4064066395285

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Historic Ornament by James Ward Pdf

"Historic Ornament" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an Irish artist James Ward. Contents: Prehistoric Ornament Neolithic Stone Period The Bronze Age The Iron Age The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of Europe Egyptian Art Chaldean and Assyrian Art Phœnician Art Art in Ancient Persia Grecian Art Art in Primitive Greece Greek and Roman Orders of Architecture Greek and Roman Architectural Ornament Indian art and Architecture Chinese and Japanese Architecture Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture Saracenic Architecture and Ornament Romanesque Architecture and Ornament Gothic Architecture and Ornament Renaissance Architecture and Ornament Pottery Enamels Ivory Carvings Metal Work Furniture Textile Fabrics Mosaics Glass The Decoration of Books

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu,Alina Payne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691167282

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Histories of Ornament by Gülru Necipoğlu,Alina Payne Pdf

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic sections on the significance, influence, and role of ornament, the book addresses ornament's current revival in architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East, and its place in the context of industrialization and modernism. Throughout, Histories of Ornament emphasizes the portability and politics of ornament, figuration versus abstraction, cross-cultural dialogues, and the constant negotiation of local and global traditions. Featuring original essays by more than two dozen scholars from around the world, this authoritative and wide-ranging book provides an indispensable reference on the histories of ornament in a global context. Contributors include: Michele Bacci (Fribourg University); Anna Contadini (University of London); Thomas B. F. Cummins (Harvard); Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest); Daniela del Pesco (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre); Vittoria Di Palma (USC); Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne); Marzia Faietti (University of Bologna); María Judith Feliciano (independent scholar); Finbarr Barry Flood (NYU); Jonathan Hay (NYU); Christopher P. Heuer (Clark Art); Rémi Labrusse (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense); Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard); Marco Rosario Nobile (University of Palermo); Oya Pancaroğlu (Bosphorus University); Spyros Papapetros (Princeton); Alina Payne (Harvard); Antoine Picon (Harvard); David Pullins (Harvard); Jennifer L. Roberts (Harvard); David J. Roxburgh (Harvard); Hashim Sarkis (MIT); Robin Schuldenfrei (Courtauld); Avinoam Shalem (Columbia); and Gerhard Wolf (KHI, Florence).

Author : Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910655

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Egyptian Cultural Identity in the Architecture of Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 325) by Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed Pdf

This volume considers the relationship between architectural form and different layers of identity assertion in Roman Egypt. It stresses the sophistication of the concept of identity, and the complex yet close association between architecture and identity.