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Item Number: 131334
Title: Silent Revolutions in Ornament : Studies in Applied Arts and Crafts from 1880-1930
Author: Hubatova-Vackova, Lada
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788086863177
Description: Prague: AAAD, 2011. 28cm., hardcover, 287pp. illus. English text. Contents: Silent Revolutions in Ornament: The Search for a New Visual Language at the Turn of the 20th Century ; Lost Lizards - Ornamental Arabesque As an Impression of Movement ; Fluid Lines: The Expressivity of Lightning, the Semantics of the Line and Ornament ; Vulcan's Engagement to Venus - Alois Studnicka's Venture into Applied Art and Ornamental Instruction in the Bohemian Lands ; Sunlight and Optical Illusions - Frantisek Kupka's Abstraction in Reference to His Teacher Alois Studnicka's Theory of Ornament ; The Ornament of Butterfly Wings - Ernst Hans Gombrich, Decorative Art, the Natural Sciences and Gestalt Psychology ; Fantastical Ornament and the Free School - Emanuel Pelant's Artistic Experimentation and Avant-garde Teaching ; Handicraft As Spiritual Regeneration: The Idealism of Marie Teinitzerova ; Hilde Pollak and the Anthroposophical Style in Applied Art - Ogranic Ornament ; Crystalline Ornament - The Oblique Surfaces and Sharp Edges of Pavel Janak ; Ornament as Structure - The Art Form of Cubist Architecture and the Role of Henry van de Velde ; The Stylised Lotus of Adolf Loos - Back to the Architect's Understanding of Ornament ; Ornament as a Microcosm - Le Corbusier's Confession ; Modernist Forbidding of Ornament and Its Second Life - "Ornament is coquetry, smoothness is truth" ; Conclusion - The Modernist with Studnicka in His Bag.
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