The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts PDF
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THE GRAMMAR of Ornament I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 1 05/11/2015 12:30 I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 2 05/11/2015 12:30 I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 3 05/11/2015 12:30 I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 4 05/11/2015 12:30 THE GRAMMAR of Ornament A visual REFERENCE of FORM and COLOUR in ARCHITECTURE and the decorative ARTS Owen Jones PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 5 05/11/2015 12:30 The Grammar of Ornament was first published in 1856 by Day & Son, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London This edition published in the United States of America and Canada in 2016 by Princeton University Press 41 William Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 press.princeton.edu Copyright © 2001, 2016 The Ivy Press Limited Jacket art from original edition. Chapter IV-Greek Ornament, Greek No. 5. Chapter VIII-Arabian Ornament, Arabian No. 5. Jacket design by Amanda Weiss. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publishers. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015955274 ISBN: 978-0-691-17206-4 This book was conceived, designed and produced by Ivy Press 210 High Street, Lewes East Sussex BN7 2NS, UK www.ivypress.co.uk Publisher Susan Kelly Creative Director Michael Whitehead Art Director James Lawrence Designer Kate Haynes Editor Mandy Greenfield Editorial Assistant Jenny Campbell Printed in China 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 6 05/11/2015 12:30 A note on this edition This new edition of The Grammar of Ornament keeps Owen Jones’s original Victorian English much as it was written (and with the original English spelling), although we have redesigned the material into a modern, compact format. It has been necessary to reposition illustrations and to renumber the captions and cross references accordingly. Occasionally, for reasons of space, minor deletions in the captions have been required, but in the main Jones’s text differs little from the original version published in 1856 and we have tried to keep the spirit of his classic work. The contemporary commentaries on the left-hand pages aim to set the period and the illustrations in context. The index is divided into two parts: references to the original book and references to the modern commentaries. Inevitably some place-names have changed with the passage of time. In many cases this is simply a matter of spelling (Balbeck is now more commonly spelled Baalbek, Aboo-simbel as Abu Simbel), but in other cases names have altered completely. For ease of reference, the most common place-name changes are given below: Asia Minor was the historical name for Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey Burma is now officially known as Myanmar Byzantium/Constantinople = Istanbul Edfu = Idfu Etruria was an area roughly equivalent to present-day Tuscany Friendly Islands = Tonga Ispahan = Esfahan The Low Countries = the region of Europe consisting of Belgium, the Netherlands, and usually Luxembourg Nineveh = Kuyunjik Persia = Iran Sandwich Islands = Hawaii Savage Island = Niue Swabia = a region in southwest Germany. I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_001-007_US.indd 7 05/11/2015 12:30 Contents Introduction 12 ......................................................................................... Preface to Owen Jones’s Original Folio Edition 18 ............................. General Principles 22 ............................................................................... CHAPTER I Ornament of Savage Tribes 30 ........................... CHAPTER II Egyptian Ornament 46 ...................................... CHAPTER III Assyrian and Persian Ornament 74 ..................... CHAPTER IV Greek Ornament 88 .......................................... I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_008-045_UK.indd 8 24/09/2015 11:19 CHAPTER V Pompeian Ornament 114 .................................. CHAPTER VI Roman Ornament 124 ...................................... CHAPTER VII Byzantine Ornament 136 ................................... CHAPTER VIII Arabian Ornament 154 ..................................... CHAPTER IX Turkish Ornament 174 ...................................... CHAPTER X Moresque Ornament from the Alhambra 184 ...... I-GRORR_Ornament_Revised_008-045_UK.indd 9 24/09/2015 11:19
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