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Investigates the psychology of decorative design and the creation and function of formal orders concentrating on problems of decorative theory, visual perception, and the symbolism of design
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'It would be hard to imagine a more intelligent discussion of the natural history of decoration and ornament.' (Jonathan Miller, The Sunday Times)
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Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its 16th edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include Art and Illusion(1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.
Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes.
Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.
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- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0801492491
- ISBN 13 9780801492495
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages422
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Condition: Gut. Second printing 1980. XI; 411 Seiten; zahlr. Illustrationen; 27 cm. Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag leicht berieben. - Englisch. - WITH OVER 400 ILLUSTRATIONS, 11 IN COLOUR. - Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (geboren 30. März 1909 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; gestorben 3. November 2001 in London) war ein österreichisch-britischer Kunsthistoriker, der am Warburg Institute in London wirkte. . (wiki) // The Sense of Order has been conceived as a companion volume to the author's well-known work Art and Illusion; while the previous book concerns the psychology of pictorial representation, the present one investigates the psychology of decorative design, the creation and function of formal orders. After an Introduction on Order and Purpose in Nature, which offers a novel approach to the study of pattern, the first chapters deal with the criticism of ornament, the cult of simplicity and the debates about design in Victorian England, in which such eminent critics as Ruskin, Owen Jones and Gottfried Semper made a permanent contribution to theoretical issues. The craftsman's practice of pattern-making is studied as a response to the challenges of material, of geometrical laws and psychological constraints, after which the author examines the perception and the effects of visual orders in the light of recent research. The relationship between psychology and history is the theme of four final chapters which deal with the tenacity of ornamental traditions, their modification by the changing styles and fashions of different periods, the role of symbolism in the origin and the use of motifs, and the psychological roots of the grotesque, oscillating between magic and humour. An Epilogue reviews some of the analogies between the spatial orders of decorative design and the temporal patterns of the dance, of poetry and, notably, of music, not forgetting the 'kinetic art' of our century. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Preface ----- Introduction ----- Order and Purpose in Nature ----- l Order and Orientation ----- The Gestalt Theory ----- Man-made Orders ----- The Geometry of Assembly ----- Order and Movement ----- Play and Art ----- The Patterns of Nature ----- Monotony and Variety ----- Part One: Decoration: Theory and Practice ----- I Issues of Taste ----- I The Moral Aspect ----- Classic Simplicity ----- Polemics around the Rococo ----- Design and Fashion ----- II Ornament as Art ----- The Menace of the Machine ----- Pugin and the Reform of Design ----- John Ruskin and Expressionism ----- Gottfried Semper and the Study of Function ----- Owen f ones and the Study of Form ----- The Japanese ----- The New Status of Design ----- Adolf Loos: 'Ornament and Crime' ----- Ornament versus Abstraction ----- The Challenge of Constraints ----- Realities of Pattern-Making ----- The Mastery of the Material ----- The Limits of Foresight ----- Tools and Samples ----- Laws and Orders ----- Part Two: The Perception of Order ----- IV The Economy of Vision ----- Varieties of Vision ----- The Selective Focus ----- Loss of Definition ----- Testimonies of Art ----- Visual Information Expectation and Extrapolation ----- The Probable and the Surprising ----- Breaks as Accents ----- Order and Survival ----- Global Perception ----- V Towards an Analysis of Effects ----- The Limitations of Aesthetics ----- Restlessness and Repose ----- Balance and Instability ----- Waves and Vortices ----- From Form to Meaning ----- Colour ----- Representation ----- Form and Purpose ----- VI Shapes and Things ----- The Kaleidoscope ----- Repetition and Meaning ----- 'Fields of Force' and Animation ----- Decoration ----- Modifying the Body ----- (u.v.a.) ISBN 0801492491 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500 Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 1194122
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