Author: Hajime OuchiPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486318990
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Some of the most ingenious and attractive modern motifs. 746 designs.
Big Book of Geometric Designs and Illusions to Color
Author: Koichi SatoPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486427911
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Over 100 ingeniously constructed designs form dazzling optical illusions and geometric shapes, offering ample opportunities for imaginative and inventive coloring. This compilation consists of 4 volumes that are popular with colorists of all ages: Geometrical Design Coloring Book, Visual Illusions Coloring Book, Optical Illusions Coloring Book, and Dazzling Designs Coloring Book.
376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles
Author: Charles CahierPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155498
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The increased use of quality designs in 19th-century manufactured goods created a steady demand during that period for collections of decorative patterns. This volume reproduces one such collection ― an extremely rare and valuable portfolio of 376 motifs assembled more than a century ago by two French Jesuit scholars. Relying on historical wall and floor tiles, textile patterns, tapestries, wall hangings, and other designs originating in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later European and Islamic cultures, Charles Cahier (1807–1882) and Arthur Martin (1802–1856) produced a work of true artistic distinction. Included are a wealth of splendid floral, animal, bird, and geometric patterns, carefully researched and meticulously redrawn for use in a myriad of graphic and artistic projects. Many of the motifs are accompanied by complementary border designs, an often essential accessory. This edition faithfully reproduces the edition published in 1868, titled Suite aux mélanges d'archéologie. It represents an invaluable copyright-free resource embodying the finest designs from historic sources, ready for use by artists, illustrators, craftspeople, and designers working with textiles, wallpapers, interior decoration, and other projects.
Author: Spyros HoremisComputer Geometric Art
Author: Ian O. AngellPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486248550
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Forty-six striking geometric lattice designs drawn by a computer using sets of lines and arcs based on beautiful, centuries-old patterns. Crisp black-and-white illustrations can be used singly or in handsome combinations. Suitable for a myriad of creative applications. Introduction.
Author: Clarence P. HornungKraftwerk
Author: Uwe SchüttePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241320550
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape 'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and machine - to change the course of modern music. This is the story of Kraftwerk the cultural phenomenon, who turned electronic music into avant-garde concept art and created the soundtrack to our digital age.
Art Deco and Geometric Stained Glass Pattern Book
Author: Richard WelchPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144178
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
DIVStunning patterns of ovals, rectangles, triangles, circles and many more for a variety of stained glass projects in the elegant Art Deco style. 136 b/w line illus. /div
Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting
Author: Yi GuPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176131
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."
Origami Design Secrets
Author: Robert J. LangPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1568817002
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Robert J. Lang, one of the worlds foremost origami artists and scientists, presents the never-before-described mathematical and geometric principles that allow anyone to design original origami, something once restricted to an elite few. From the theoretical underpinnings to detailed step-by-step folding sequences, this book takes a modern look at
