Durers Knots

Author : Susan Dackerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691250448
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dürer’s Knots written by Susan Dackerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first comprehensive study of Duerer's treatment of Islamic themes in his prints"--

Author : Kathleen Karr
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761453680
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 7th Knot written by Kathleen Karr and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers touring Europe in the nineteenth century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet.

Author : Adrian Snodgrass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718967
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symbolism of the Stupa written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close analysis of the architecture of the stupa—a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, who trained as an architect, examines both the physical and metaphysical levels of these buildings, which derive their meaning and significance from Buddhist and Brahmanist influences.

Author : Adrian Snodgrass
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120807815
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symbolism of the Stupa written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1992 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his preface to The Symbolism of the Stupa Prof. Craig Reynolds writes "The stupa is a symbolic form that pullulates throghout south southeast and East Asia. In its Indian manifestations it is an extreme case in terms of architectural function: it has no usable has a basic simplicity. In this state of the art studt Adrian Snodrass reads the stupa as a cultural artifact. The mounment concretizes metaphysical principles and generates multivalent meanings in ways that can be articulated with lite

Author : Norman O. Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520910409
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition written by Norman O. Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-09-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. Love's Body is a continuation of the explorations begun in Brown's famous Life Against Death. Rounding out the trilogy is Brown's brilliant Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis.

Author : Jay Bonner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1441902171
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Geometric Patterns written by Jay Bonner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns. The author details the design methodology responsible for this all-but-lost art form and presents evidence for its use from the historical record, both of which are vital contributions to the understanding of this ornamental tradition. Additionally, the author examines the historical development of Islamic geometric patterns, the significance of geometric design within the broader context of Islamic ornament as a whole, the formative role that geometry plays throughout the Islamic ornamental arts (including calligraphy, the floral idiom, dome decoration, geometric patterns, and more), and the underexamined question of pattern classification. Featuring over 600 beautiful color images, Islamic Geometric Patterns: Their Historical Development and Traditional Methods of Con struction is a valuable addition to the literature of Islamic art, architecture and geometric patterns. This book is ideal for students and scholars of geometry, the history of mathematics, and the history of Islamic art, architecture, and culture. In addition, artists, designers, craftspeople, and architects will all find this book an exceptionally informative and useful asset in their fields. Jay Bonner is an architectural ornamentalist and unaffiliated scholar of Islamic geometric design. He received his MDes from the Royal College of Art in London (1983). He has contributed ornamental designs for many international architectural projects, including the expansion of both the al-Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, and the al-Masjid an Nawabi (Prophet’s Mosque) in Medina, as well the Tomb of Sheikh Hujwiri in Lahore, and the Ismaili Centre in London – to name but a few. He is committed to the revitalization of Islamic geometric design through the teaching of traditional methodological practices. To this end, in addition to publishing, Jay Bonner has lectured and taught design seminars at many universities and conferences in North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia.

Author : Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0941532577
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journeys East written by Harry Oldmeadow and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to treat the impact of religious, philosophical and psychological traditions of the East on Western intellectuals, artists, travellers and spiritual seekers in the twentieth century. Addressed to both general readers and scholars of religion, it is especially valuable for its penetrating and inter-religious analysis of two of the most compelling themes now facing the world: the emergence of cross-cultural religious understanding of the natural order and ecological crisis and the metaphysical basis for both the formal diversity and essential unity of religious traditions of both East and West. The West has long romanticized the "mysterious" East, but it has, also, judged its traditions as "uncivilized." Our notions about Eastern spirituality have been formed by a succession of travellers, scientists, artists, intellectuals, poets, philosophers and missionaries, as well as by Eastern travellers who have spent time in the West. This book helps us to recognize the influence of Eastern ideas upon modern Western thought by tracing the history of engagements between East and West up until the present day. It concludes with a section that helps us to perceive the timeless value of the many Eastern contributions to the West's current intellectual and spiritual state.

Author : William Bell Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert Durer written by William Bell Scott and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Dunkerton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300095333
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Durer to Veronese written by Jill Dunkerton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting - including large altarpieces, small domestic, devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture, decorations and both intimate and full-length portraits - as well as frescoes, drawings and prints. They provide insights into the meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s.

Author : Michael Tawa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527554708
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agencies of the Frame written by Michael Tawa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture aims to explore parallel approaches to the conceptualisation and composition of place, space, time, materiality and narrative in cinematographic and architectural practices. Beyond drawing useful implications for design, the book investigates a range of themes to mobilise a reconsideration of cinema and architecture as non-representational practices. It suggests that films and buildings can be read and designed as assemblages not directed to the formal expression of meaning, but to the framing of strategic and enabling conditions of emergent sense, realised within the tectonic and material conditions of the cinematic and the architectural as such. Succinct analyses of precedents in film, music, painting and architecture are used to foreground tectonic and compositional characteristics related to spatiality, temporality and narrative that are transferable across disciplines and practices. The thematic framework of the book engages theoretical material by Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, Nancy, Agamben and Stiegler. Classical modernist and postmodernist films by Dreyer, Antonioni, Hitchcock, Godard, Paradjanov, Tarkovski, Herzog, Lynch and Heneke are analysed side by side with important traditional, modernist and contemporary buildings, including works by Corbusier, Scarpa, Lewerentz, Zumthor and Markli. Illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author, the book should be of interest to practitioners and students of art, design, cinema and the built environment who wish to expand the creative scope and resonance of their work.