The Grammar of Ornament : A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition / Owen Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Owen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874. Grammar of ornament.

Jones, Owen.

Decoration and ornament--Themes, motives.

Decoration and ornament.

Decoration and ornament--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

The complete and unabridged full-color

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The complete and unabridged full-color editionFirst published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources.Jones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Preface to Owen Jones's Original Folio Edition

General principles in the arrangement of form and colour, in architecture and the decorative arts, which are advocated throughout this work

Chapter I. Ornament of Savage Tribes

Chapter II. Egyptian Ornament

Chapter III. Assyrian and Persian Ornament

Chapter IV. Greek Ornament

Chapter V. Pompeian Ornament

Chapter VI. Roman Ornament

Chapter VII. Byzantine Ornament

Chapter VIII. Arabian Ornament

Chapter IX. Turkish Ornament

Chapter X. Moresque Ornament from the Alhambra

Chapter XI. Persian Ornament

Chapter XII. Indian Ornament

Chapter XIII. Hindoo Ornament

Chapter XIV. Chinese Ornament

Chapter XV. Celtic Ornament

Chapter XVI. Mediæval Ornament

Chapter XVII. Renaissance Ornament

Chapter XVIII. Elizabethan Ornament

Chapter XIX. Italian Ornament

Chapter XX. Leaves and Flowers from Nature

Index to the Commentaries and Introduction

Index to Owen Jones's Text

Owen Jones: A Chronology

Notes:

"The Grammar of Orient was first published in 1856 by Day & Son, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400882717

1400882710

OCLC:

1129085400