New grammar of ornament / Thomas Weil ; translations, Allison Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weil, Thomas, 1944- author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Schütz, Heinz, 1953- contributor.

Brown, Allison (Translator), translator.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament--Themes, motives.

Decoration and ornament.

Decoration and ornament--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"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. In New Grammar of Ornament, 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." More than 160 years after Owen Jones' influential publication, New Grammar of Ornament 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: The New Grammar of Ornament and the geometric ornament as art's original language/ Thomas Weil

The archaeology and origins of ornaments: a deep-time perspective / Manuel Will

Decorum. Ornament. Pattern. Art. / Heinz Schütz

Minimal. Minimal: Free ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes

Minimal: striped ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes

Minimal: Rectangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes

Minimal: Triangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes

Geometric. Geometric: Free ; with dots, lines, planes

Geometric: Striped ; with dots, lines, planes

Geometric: Rectangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes

Geometric: Triangular ; with dots ; with lines ; with planes

Floral. Flora: Suns ; with 8 lobes ; with 6 lobes ; with 5 lobes ; with 4 lobes ; with 3 lobes

Floral: Plants ; with fruits and flowers ; with leaves and branches

Flora: Archetypes ; with sine waves ; with ovals ; with spirals ; with miscellaneous

Floral: Earth ; with air, fire and earth

Epilogue / Thomas Weil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 333).

ISBN:

3037786531

9783037786536

OCLC:

1252961969