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XI; 411 Seiten; zahlr. Illustrationen; 27 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag leicht berieben. - Englisch. - WITH OVER 400 ILLUSTRATIONS, 11 IN COLOUR. - 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 0714817325