• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: The grammar of ornament : a visual reference of form and colour in architecture and the decorative arts
  • Beteiligte: Jones, Owen [VerfasserIn]; Zaczek, Iain [KommentatorIn]
  • Erschienen: Lewes: Ivy Press, 2016
  • Ausgabe: New edition
  • Umfang: 496 Seiten; Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9781782403319; 1782403310
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  • Schlagwörter: Ornament
  • Beschreibung: First published in 1856, 'The Grammar of Ornament' remains a design classic. As Owen Jones, its creator, admired the array of ornament he encountered on his global travels, so his distaste grew for mongrel design which married unrelated styles with a messy end effect. The result was the 'Grammar'. Each illustration is allotted its place within a cultural context and illuminated in this new edition by a contemporary commentary. Iain Zaczek, who has contributed the new commentaries, is an art historian who has written widely on the history of design
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