Islamic geometric design / Eric Broug.

By: Broug, Eric [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2013©2013 Description: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500516959 (hardback)Subject(s): Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Islamic countries | Islamic decoration and ornament | Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Islamic countries | Geometry in art | Islamic artLOC classification: NK1270 .B76 2013
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Basic Design Principles -- ch. 2 Grids and Polygons -- ch. 3 Fourfold Geometric Design -- ch. 4 Sixfold Geometric Design -- ch. 5 Fivefold Geometric Design -- ch. 6 Combined Geometric Design.
Summary: Looking at mosques, madrasas, palaces and tombs from the 8th-19th centuries, Eric Broug analyzes and explains Islamic geometric designs in their historical and physical context. Chapters cover the main families of geometric design--fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold--as well as basic design principles, grids, polygons, and complex combined patterns. Includes an appendix on how to create designs and a glossary.Summary: Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvelous intricacy, yet they are seldom understood. In this illustrated volume, Eric Broug analyzes and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context. Broug shows how, over the centuries, craftsmen were able to adorn buildings with wonderful geometric patterns using the simplest of tools and without recourse to mathematical calculations. Design elements created from straight lines and circles were placed in grids and then repeated and varied to generate seemingly limitless arrays of breathtaking patterns. Chapters are devoted to each of the main families of geometric design - fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold - and to the complex combined patterns. Readers can follow the design processes by which these patterns were created and even learn to reproduce and invent geometric patterns for themselves.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Basic Design Principles -- ch. 2 Grids and Polygons -- ch. 3 Fourfold Geometric Design -- ch. 4 Sixfold Geometric Design -- ch. 5 Fivefold Geometric Design -- ch. 6 Combined Geometric Design.

Looking at mosques, madrasas, palaces and tombs from the 8th-19th centuries, Eric Broug analyzes and explains Islamic geometric designs in their historical and physical context. Chapters cover the main families of geometric design--fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold--as well as basic design principles, grids, polygons, and complex combined patterns. Includes an appendix on how to create designs and a glossary.

Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvelous intricacy, yet they are seldom understood. In this illustrated volume, Eric Broug analyzes and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context. Broug shows how, over the centuries, craftsmen were able to adorn buildings with wonderful geometric patterns using the simplest of tools and without recourse to mathematical calculations. Design elements created from straight lines and circles were placed in grids and then repeated and varied to generate seemingly limitless arrays of breathtaking patterns. Chapters are devoted to each of the main families of geometric design - fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold - and to the complex combined patterns. Readers can follow the design processes by which these patterns were created and even learn to reproduce and invent geometric patterns for themselves.

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