The Language Of Ornament

Author : James Trilling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500203439
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Ornament written by James Trilling and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780295981482
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ornament written by James Trilling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Ornament written by Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kent Bloomer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730364
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Of Ornament written by Kent Bloomer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252769
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mediation of Ornament written by Oleg Grabar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Owen Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examples of Chinese Ornament written by Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Thesman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395742785
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ornament Tree written by Jean Thesman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonnie Shaster, fourteen and recently orphaned, arrives at her cousin Audra's Seattle boarding house in 1918 and struggles to find her place among a disorderly group of progressive ladies and outspoken gentlemen boarders, among them a handsome but embittered young man blinded in the Great War.

Author : Alexander Speltz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486155277
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Styles of Ornament written by Alexander Speltz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largest collection of decorated artifacts, all in line; prehistoric, Egyptian, Islamic, Baroque, Victorian, other areas, times. 3,700 illustrations.

Author : Maria Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316092797
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ornament of the World written by Maria Rosa Menocal and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Galison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780735367111
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lit Like a Christmas Tree Ornament Book written by Galison and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great addition to your tree-trimming party, the Lit Like a Christmas Tree Ornament Book from Galison includes 10 pop-out colorful ornaments and 10 festive cocktail recipes. * Size: 5 x 5 x 1.25" * 10 Illustrated Cocktail Ornaments * 10 Festive Cocktail Recipes * Foiled cover * 20 pages