The Grammar of Ornament
内容简介
A new edition of the classic volume, first published in 1856, presents a comprehensive, organized catalog of decorative elements from various European and Asian cultures, featuring more than two thousand beautifully rendered patterns and designs, accompanied by helpful captions and commentary.
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作者简介
Owen Jones was an architect and designer who taught at the South Kensington School of Design, London, during the 1850s and served as joint architect of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The following year he was appointed Director of Decorations for the new Crystal Palace exhibition in Sydenham, south London. The Grammar of Ornament, his legacy to designers, quickly acquired the status of a classic. He died in 1874. Iain Zaczek, who has contributed the commentaries, is an art historian who graduated from Wadham College, Oxford University, and the Courtauld Institute, London. He has written on a wide variety of topics, but his special interest is in nineteenth-century art. He is the author of The Essential William Morris, The Essential Art Deco, and The Art of Illuminated Manuscripts.
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读书文摘
作为自然本性的反映，原始部落的装饰艺术总是服从于目的；而在更为开化的文明之中，不断的重复弱化了创造经典形态的初心，装饰被滥用了。本来应该追求的是更方便的功用、更美观的形态，但效果却适得其反，在考虑不周的形态上过度装饰，美感反而消失殆尽。如果我们想在艺术上变得更加自然健康，我们必须回归成为野人，或成为赤子，我们必须抛却技法、去伪存真，重新恢复我们的自然本能。
法则37 只有所有阶层、艺术家、工匠和公众接受了更高的审美教育，这些基本艺术原则能够得到更为广泛的认可，那么当代艺术才能有所进步。
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