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)

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)

In the late 19th century, an enduring preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects - cups, saucers, chairs, and tables - began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing for a new understanding of the genealogy of architectural modernism. Ra...(展开全部)

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 copyright-free designs are exquisite Greek and Roman borders and mosaics, Celtic designs taken from manuscripts, motifs from medieval paintings and stained glass, floral patterns from Chinese porcelain and much mor...(展开全部)

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. This book is a celebration of the masses - their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture and the relation betw...(展开全部)

作者简介： 齐格弗里德·克拉考尔 1889年生于法兰克福，1966 年逝世于纽约。长期任《法兰克福报》编辑，直至1933年经法国流亡美国。出版著作有:《作为科学的社会学》《金斯特》《雇员们》《雅克o奥芬巴赫和他的时代的巴黎》《宣传和纳粹战争电影》《从卡里加利到希特勒》《精神卫星》《电影理论》《大众装饰》《历史：终结前的终事》《文集》。 译者简介： 孙柏 文学博士，现任教于中国人民大学文学院，主要研究领域：电影理论、中国电影史、中西戏剧文化交流、现代戏剧、文化研究等。近年来主要著作：《十九世纪西方演剧与晚清国人的接受》(2021)， 译著《我们时代的精神状况》(2018)。 薄一荻 南开大学外国语学院德语系讲师，博士毕业于北京大学外国语学院，博士论文题目为《爱情与理性的消逝--二十世纪两部德语<图兰朵>改编研究》。主要研究方向为中德文学文化关系、近现代...(展开全部)