Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486133966
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
577 authentic Art Nouveau designs ranging in size from full-page illustrations to borders, headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Designs include florals, landscapes, and figures, from artists such as Klimt, Bradley, Auriol, and Larcombe.
Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486133966
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
577 authentic Art Nouveau designs ranging in size from full-page illustrations to borders, headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Designs include florals, landscapes, and figures, from artists such as Klimt, Bradley, Auriol, and Larcombe.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486133966
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
577 authentic Art Nouveau designs ranging in size from full-page illustrations to borders, headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Designs include florals, landscapes, and figures, from artists such as Klimt, Bradley, Auriol, and Larcombe.
Racinet's Historic Ornament
Author: Auguste Racinet
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486998770
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Adapted from jewelry, textiles, hardware, ceramic, inlays, carvings, and more, 852 full-color designs, collected by famed French artist Racinet, offer decorative ornamentation from every major culture of the world. Highlighting the achievements of artisans from ancient Egypt to 18th-century France, this treasury of historic motifs is an unparalleled source of beauty and inspiration.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486998770
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Adapted from jewelry, textiles, hardware, ceramic, inlays, carvings, and more, 852 full-color designs, collected by famed French artist Racinet, offer decorative ornamentation from every major culture of the world. Highlighting the achievements of artisans from ancient Egypt to 18th-century France, this treasury of historic motifs is an unparalleled source of beauty and inspiration.
Frame Work
Author: Alison Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300238843
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300238843
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.
Art Nouveau Floral Ornament in Color
Author: Maurice Pillard Verneuil
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
197 organic designs on 48 plates by Verneuil, Bourgeot, and others: arrowhead, blackberry, buttercup, columbine, gourd, honeysuckle, iris, thistle, more; plus animal motifs: seahorses, kingfishers, peacocks, and others."
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
197 organic designs on 48 plates by Verneuil, Bourgeot, and others: arrowhead, blackberry, buttercup, columbine, gourd, honeysuckle, iris, thistle, more; plus animal motifs: seahorses, kingfishers, peacocks, and others."
The Grammar of Ornament
Author: Owen Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Ornament and Order
Author: Dr Rafael Schacter
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472410009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over whether these acts are vandalism or art, and which examine the role of graffiti in gang culture and in terms of visual pollution. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world’s most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are seen to reface rather than deface the city, operating within a modality of contemporary civic ritual. The book is divided into two main sections, Ornament and Order. Ornament focuses upon the physical artifacts themselves, the various meanings these public artists ascribe to their images as well as the tensions and communicative schemata emerging out of their material form. Using two very different understandings of political action, it places these illicit icons within the wider theoretical debate over the public sphere that they materially re-present. Order is focused more closely on the ephemeral trace of these spatial acts, the explicitly performative, practice-based elements of their aesthetic production. Exploring thematics such as carnival and play, risk and creativity, it tracks how the very residue of this cultural production structures and shapes the socio-ethico guidelines of these artists’ lifeworlds.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472410009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over whether these acts are vandalism or art, and which examine the role of graffiti in gang culture and in terms of visual pollution. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world’s most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are seen to reface rather than deface the city, operating within a modality of contemporary civic ritual. The book is divided into two main sections, Ornament and Order. Ornament focuses upon the physical artifacts themselves, the various meanings these public artists ascribe to their images as well as the tensions and communicative schemata emerging out of their material form. Using two very different understandings of political action, it places these illicit icons within the wider theoretical debate over the public sphere that they materially re-present. Order is focused more closely on the ephemeral trace of these spatial acts, the explicitly performative, practice-based elements of their aesthetic production. Exploring thematics such as carnival and play, risk and creativity, it tracks how the very residue of this cultural production structures and shapes the socio-ethico guidelines of these artists’ lifeworlds.
Full-color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament
Author: Auguste Racinet
Publisher: Dover
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Classic sourcebook of spectacular design collages, all royalty-free, featuring over 1,500 decorative elements and motifs from major cultures in world history through the 19th century.
Publisher: Dover
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Classic sourcebook of spectacular design collages, all royalty-free, featuring over 1,500 decorative elements and motifs from major cultures in world history through the 19th century.
Ornament and European Modernism
Author: Loretta Vandi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351668587
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, the contributors show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament is imbued with historical and social meaning.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351668587
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, the contributors show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament is imbued with historical and social meaning.
Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art
Author: Chris Askholt Hammeken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789462984967
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The paradox of ornament and monstrosity launches an array of thought-provoking perspectives on sixteenth-century visual art by targeting its ambiguous artificiality and moments of anxiety.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789462984967
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The paradox of ornament and monstrosity launches an array of thought-provoking perspectives on sixteenth-century visual art by targeting its ambiguous artificiality and moments of anxiety.
The Mediation of Ornament
Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.