基本信息出版社：Victoria and Albert Museum
页码：96 页
出版日期：2006年06月
ISBN：1851774726
条形码：9781851774722
装帧：精装
开本：96
正文语种：英语
外文书名：西方装饰集锦

内容简介 Ornament surrounds us: on buildings, clothes and accessories, cars, and even computers. This easy-to-use reference, complete with rich illustrations, tells the story of European ornament from 1450 to the present; from the Renaissance to the consumer culture of today; from gargoyles to cell phones. Highly accessible, the book offers basic definitions and examples that contribute to a clearer understanding of this ever-popular subject.

Following a thematic approach, author Michael Snodin examines shapes, symbols, and patterns that derive from the natural world as well as key architectural styles. Also explored is ornament as it mirrors the preoccupations of each age: architectural in the Renaissance, exotic in the great age of discovery, and stylized in the Modern Age. As this book makes clear, behind the desire to decorate lies the need to give meaning to the things we make and live with: to make them distinctive and give them value.
作者简介 Michael Snodin is Head of the Designs Section of the V&A's Department of Word & Image and Senior Curator of the V&A+RIBA* Architecture Partnership. He has written and lectured extensively on design and led the team responsible for the V&A's acclaimed new architecture gallery, which opened at the end of 2004.
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