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Broug, Eric.
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Islamic art.
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Islamic countries.
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Broug, Eric.
Islamic art.
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Islamic countries.
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Islamic
geometric design / Eric Broug.
by
Broug, Eric.
Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2013.
Call #:
709.1767 B875i
Subjects
Islamic
art.
Repetitive
patterns
(
Decorative
arts
)
--
Islamic
countries
.
ISBN:
9780500516959 (hc.)
Description:
256 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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