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Knight, Terry Weissman

 
9780521384605: Transformations in Design: A Formal Approach to Stylistic Change and Innovation in the Visual Arts

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An innovative approach to the language of syle and stylistic change in the visual arts.

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Descrizione del libro

Style and stylistic change are central issues in the study of art and architecture. In this book, a new and innovative approach is developed that looks not only at traditional questions about stylistic change but also sets up a formal model through which to analyse change and structure innovation.

Contenuti

Part I. Background: 1. Style and stylistic change: the tradition; 2. Languages and transformations: a new approach; Part II. Transformations of Languages of Designs: A formal Model: 3. Shape grammars: a standard format; 4. Recursive structures of shape grammars; 5. Transformations of shape grammars; Part III. Examples: 6. Transformations of the meander motif on Greek geometric pottery; 7. Transformations of De Stijl art: The paintings of Georles Vantongerloo and Fritz Glarner; 8. The transformation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses into his Usonian houses; Notes; Index.

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9780521386142: Transformations in Design: A Formal Approach to Stylistic Change and Innovation in the Visual Arts

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ISBN 10:  0521386144 ISBN 13:  9780521386142
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997
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