Ornament and Crime

Ornament and Crime

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Fantastic Ornament 9780486154046, 2006048596

Swirling with gargoyles, devils, dragons, griffins, and other images that haunt both dreams and nightmares, this otherwo

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Pattern : Ornament, Structure, and Behavior 9783034608879, 9783764389543

As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also th

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Pattern: Ornament, Structure, and Behavior 9783034608879, 9783764389543

Pattern – a concept between abstraction and perception As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient a

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The Mediation of Ornament 9780691252773

How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, o

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The Function of Ornament 9788496540507

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing th

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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art 9789048535873

The paradox of ornament and monstrosity launches an array of thought-provoking perspectives on sixteenth-century visual

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The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament 9781474482202

Collects Yasser Tabbaa’s writings on transformations in Islamic architecture and ornament in relation to parallel theolo

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The Topkapi scroll: geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture 0892363355

Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic

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Roman Architectural Ornament in Britain 9781841712925, 9781407319667

The eminent scholar in the field of Roman architecture, Thomas Blagg, died in 2000. As a further mark of respect Grahame

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