A new edition of the classic volume, first published in 1856, presents a comprehensive, organized catalog of decorative elements from various European and Asian cultures, featuring more than two thousand beautifully rendered patterns and designs, accompanied by helpful captions and commentary.

A new edition of the classic volume, first published in 1856, presents a comprehensive, organized catalog of decorative elements from various European and Asian cultures, featuring more than two thousand beautifully rendered patterns and designs, accompanied by helpful captions and commentary.

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 ornamen...(展开全部)

In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period.

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses thr...(展开全部)

In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period.

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses thr...(展开全部)

缪哲 在艺术史学者的书房里，欧文·琼斯（Owen Jones，1809-1874）的《装饰的语法》（The Grammar of Ornament）与《中国装饰集锦》（Examples of Chinese Ornament），是两部常见的书。 本NB里的图案，皆选自《中国装饰集锦》。琼斯的序说：“中国新近的战争，及太平（天国）之乱，使许多公共建筑遭洗劫，或夷为丘墟；富丽的装饰艺术品，亦因此流入欧洲。这些作品，是以前罕见的。其夺人目者，不仅在工艺的精能，亦在色彩的和谐，与装饰的通体之完美。” 然则琼斯成书，是以太平天国运动导致的中国工艺品流散为因缘的。从书取的图案看，这些工艺作品，似皆晚清的粉彩，或珐琅彩。这类作品，固有琼斯称的“富丽”与“精能”，但图案呆板，无即兴之趣，色彩肥腻，失淡雅之美。原其趣味，不过“满族大官”的“村婆娘好浓妆”，很不高明。琼...(展开全部)