The Nature of Ornament: Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) - Hardcover

Bloomer, Kent

 
9780393730364: The Nature of Ornament: Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393730360 ISBN 13: 9780393730364
Verlag: Blue Guides Limited of London, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

The purpose of ornament-to articulate a realm of the imagination-is as important as it is misunderstood. Kent Bloomer, an outstanding sculptor and ornamenter whose work adorns the Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Reagan National Airport, Washington, DC, and other buildings, maintains that ornament is neither pure "art" in the contemporary sense of the word nor mere decoration, but rather a category unto itself, with its own unique language. He describes the key elements of ornament, rhythm and metamorphosis, and shows their application in such figures as the foliated scroll. Illustrated with the author's evocative line drawings and photographs of ornament from ancient Greece to the modern cityscape, the book is a hymn to the riches of architectural ornament.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kent Bloomer teaches at Yale University.

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Verlag
Blue Guides Limited of London
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393730360
ISBN 13 
9780393730364
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
250
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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