The Language Of Ornament

Author : James Trilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500203431

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The Language of Ornament by James Trilling Pdf

An introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value to craftworkers, collectors and students of art history. Trilling analyzes the historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain, or the carved and woven ornament of Native Americans. An impressive variety of ornament from the paleolithic age to the present day enables the reader to appreciate both its inherent form and beauty. Individual styles and patterns are traced through their evolution and interaction between cultures through trade, conquest and religious influences.

Author : James Trilling
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0295981482

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Ornament by James Trilling Pdf

This text is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained and why it matters.

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : PSU:000001613032

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The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones Pdf

Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252766

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The Mediation of Ornament by Oleg Grabar Pdf

How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world. The Mediation of Ornament shares a veteran art historian’s love for the sheer sensuality of Islamic ornamentation, but also uses this art to show how ornament serves as a consistent intermediary between viewers and artistic works from all cultures and periods. Oleg Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects, ranging from frontispieces in Yemen to tilework in the Alhambra, and compares them to Western examples, treating all pieces as testimony of the work, life, thought, and emotion experienced in one society. The Mediation of Ornament is essential reading for admirers of Islamic art and anyone interested in the ways of perceiving and understanding the arts more broadly.

Author : Franz Sales Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Art objects
ISBN : NYPL:33433072178399

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A Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer Pdf

Author : Rachel Laura Moss
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Romanesque
ISBN : UOM:39015080685707

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Romanesque Chevron Ornament by Rachel Laura Moss Pdf

This is a detailed study and typology of chevron ornamentation, the zig-zag motifs which are omnipresent in Norman architecture of the twelfth century, first appearing around 1090 and pretty much disappearing by 1200.

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : BML:37001102504870

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Examples of Chinese Ornament by Owen Jones Pdf

Author : Alexander Speltz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 1129 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486155272

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The Styles of Ornament by Alexander Speltz Pdf

Largest collection of decorated artifacts, all in line; prehistoric, Egyptian, Islamic, Baroque, Victorian, other areas, times. 3,700 illustrations.

Author : David Jury
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 1780675895

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The Little Book of Typographic Ornament by David Jury Pdf

This little book contains a beautiful and varied collection of typographic ornaments sourced from specimen books of type foundries, dating from 1700. David Jury explains how the need for typographic ornaments arose and developed, and sets them in their historical context. The chapters cover natural forms; geometric forms; rules and borders; wreaths, borders and scrolls; and pictorial ornaments. The last chapter charts the rise of the graphic designer over the last century, and how modern designers are now reinterpreting these typographic ornaments into new forms of art. The Little Book of Typographic Ornament will be an invaluable reference for graphic designers, as well as providing a source of copyright-free images.

Author : Kent Bloomer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393730360

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Nature Of Ornament by Kent Bloomer Pdf

Yet during the twentieth century, ornament was scorned (Adolf Loos famously called it "crime") and its study all but eliminated from art and architecture curricula. What happened - and must we live with the result? Is ornament dead?".

Author : Markus Brüderlin,Fondation Beyeler
Publisher : Dumont
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300092261

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Ornament and Abstraction by Markus Brüderlin,Fondation Beyeler Pdf

"This book is an in-depth study of this major theme in 20th century art history. It begins with the innovative pictorial conception of Philipp Otto Runge, whose early 19th century paintings featured the last genuine form in the history of ornament, the arabesque. The arabesque had an influence via Symbolism (Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin) and Art Nouveau (Henry van de Velde, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann) on painting's move towards abstraction (Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Adolf Hoelzel), which resulted on the one hand in a non-figurative, geometric structure of lines (Mondrian), and on the other, in the swirls of Matisse and Jackson Pollock. Side by side with the "royal way" of Cubism, arabesque abstraction therefore opens up a second doorway to the world of non-figurative art." "Significant influences also result from the modern artists' preoccupation with the ornamentation found in distant cultures, such as Matisse with the Orient and Oceania, Ad Reinhardt with Asian culture, and American painting with pre-Columbian ornament (Josef Albers, Barnett Newman). Referring also to Minimalism, new media, digital technology, the Renaissance and the Rococo, the book celebrates the impact of ornament on abstract art, as well as showcasing a remarkable array of masterpieces."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Maria Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316092791

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The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal Pdf

This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and where literature, science, and the arts flourished. "It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call 'Western' culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment...This book partly restores a world we have lost." —Christopher Hitchens, The Nation

Author : Thomas Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 3037786531

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New Grammar of Ornament by Thomas Weil Pdf

Ornaments are omnipresent ? they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs.00In New Grammar of Ornaments, Thomas Weil compares current ornamental objects with the results of archaeological research on ornamental artifacts and concludes that there is an anthropological constant. From the recurring arrangements of stripes, rectangles, triangles and dots and the frequency of the forms of floral ornaments used, he derives a new ?grammar of ornament.?00More than 160 years after Owen Jones' influential publication, New Grammar of Ornaments is a new standard work. It categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and for the first time places them in a major art and cultural-historical context.

Author : David Batterham,Auguste Dupont-Auberville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Design
ISBN : 3836556251

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Die Welt der Ornamente by David Batterham,Auguste Dupont-Auberville Pdf

Teeming with tapestries, manuscript illuminations, carpets, and tiles, this far-reaching compendium brings together the two greatest 19th-century catalogues of ornament into one indispensable reference book. Encompassing designs from medieval times through to the 19th century, in styles as diverse as Egyptian, Etruscan, or Middle Eastern, this...

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : PSU:000055169561

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The Principles of Ornament by James Ward Pdf