The Grammar of Ornament.: All 100 Color Plates from the Folio Edition of the Great Victorian Sourcebook of Historic Design - Softcover

Jones, Owen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486254631 ISBN 13: 9780486254630

Verlag: Dover, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

This beautiful and highly influential book, long a classic in its field, remains today one of the most comprehensive and best-organized presentations of historic ornamental design. The original 100 color plates, meticulously reproduced here from the rare original folio edition, present a dazzling spectrum of copyright-free design motifs from both ancient and modern cultures, among them: Egyptian - Assyrian - Persian - Greek - Pompeian - Roman - Byzantine - Arabian - Turkish - Moorish - Indian - Chinese - Celtic - Medieval - Renaissance - Elizabethan - Italian Fine and graphic artists will find nearly three thousand designs rendered in fine detail from Greek and Roman borders and mosaics; Celtic designs taken from manuscripts; motifs from medieval paintings and stained glass; floral patterns from Chinese porcelain, wood and fabrics; illuminated script from the Koran; ornamentation from Turkish mosques and tombs; Moorish designs from the Alhambra and much more. Connoisseurs of art and design will find the book's rich display of decorative motifs an endless source of contemplative pleasures. The work of the celebrated English designer and architect Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, published in 1856, was the first book to present a global and historical range of ornament in color, the first to display "primitive" art for its design content, and among the first to suggest nature as a basic design source (the concluding section presents a magnificent series of illustrations of leaves and flowers). Widely used and circulated, it was a prophetic work which marked a major change in Western aesthetics and heralded the move towards nonrepresentational art. Its value as a beautifully organized and produced pictorial museum of historic ornamental design remains unsurpassed.

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This beautiful and highly influential book, long a classic in its field, includes all 100 original color plates from a rare Victorian edition. Among the nearly 3,000 royalty-free designs are exquisite Greek and Roman borders and mosaics, Celtic designs taken from manuscripts, motifs from medieval paintings and stained glass, and floral patterns from Chinese porcelain.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0486254631
• ISBN 13: 9780486254630
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar