Celtic Art: The Methods Of Construction George Bain Little Brown Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

Celtic Art Is The Only Indigenous British Form Of World Significance And This Book A Graphically Eloquent Plea For Establishment Great National To Its Rightful Place In Schools Colleges Where History Ornament Being Taught Until Recently Classical Orientated Art-World Has Regarded Abstract Iconographic Symbolic Style Artist As Something An Enigma Mysterious Archaic Survival Largely Ignored Histories Modern Trends Away From Realism Interest Younger Generation Psychedelic Nouveau Styles Provides Favourable Ground Revival Which Widespread New Edition Seems Indicate Possible When First Appeared It Was Hailed \ Veritable Grammar Ornament\ Certainly Indispensable Reference Practical Textbook Student Craftsman Seeking Simple Constructional Methods Laying Out Complex Ornamental Schemes Entire Chronology Symbols Embrace Spirals Through Chevrons Step Patterns Keys Knotwork Interlacings Are Unique Particular School There Also Sections Dealing With Zoomorphics Authentic Knitwear Ceramics Other Areas Author Pioneered His Day Deals Pictish Artist-Craftsman Who Cut Pagan Like Burghead Bull Early Christian Era Designed Such Superb Examples Monumental Sculpture Aberlemno Cross Ardagh Chalice Counter-Parts Books Kells Lindisfarne Owing Much Their Perfection Beauty Use Mathematical Formulae Found Nowhere Else Than Occupied By Picts Outstanding Achievement Subtle Manner They Combined Artistic Geometric Magic Imagination Logic Function Both Teach Adorn Although Incidental Main Educational Purpose Implicit Challenge Historian Archaeologist Frankly Admits That Evidence Researches Into Have Revealed Hitherto Unsuspected Culture Sophistication Pre-Roman Britain Pose Many Questions Answered Were Picts? Whence Asiatic Origins Art?The Instinct One Most Basic Human Impulses Atavistic Roots Primeval Creative Imaginative Characteristic Separates Man Beast Σελίδες: 164 Διαστάσεις: 22 4X22 4Cm