Author : Thomas Weil
Release : 2021-09
Genre : Decoration and ornament
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 536/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis New Grammar of Ornament by : Thomas Weil

Download or read book New Grammar of Ornament written by Thomas Weil. This book was released on 2021-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornaments are omnipresent ? they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs.00In New Grammar of Ornaments, Thomas Weil compares current ornamental objects with the results of archaeological research on ornamental artifacts and concludes that there is an anthropological constant. From the recurring arrangements of stripes, rectangles, triangles and dots and the frequency of the forms of floral ornaments used, he derives a new ?grammar of ornament.?00More than 160 years after Owen Jones' influential publication, New Grammar of Ornaments is a new standard work. It categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and for the first time places them in a major art and cultural-historical context.