Ornament in applied art
Subtitle: 122 color plates reproducing over 2000 decorative motives from the arts of Asia, primitive Europe, North, Central, and South America, Africa, Oceania, and from the peasant arts of Europe
By: with an introduction and catalogue by H. Th. Bossert
Contributors: Hamilton, L
Publisher: E. Weyhe
Published: 1924
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Decoration and ornament; Decoration and ornament
Other titles: Weyhe's ornament
Description: "In this volume the main consideration has been devoted to the pre-classic, occidental, Islamic, Asiatic, and ancient American cultures during the period of their highest development, as well as to those of native peoples, and European folk art. But in finally compiling the work, the changing tendencies of our times had to be taken into account in presentation and reproduction. Former works on the subject were usually limited to copies of patterns, so that the connections between object and form, out of which the decorations originated, were hardly, or not at all, recognizable. This volume attempts to retain the unity of ornament material and form. For this reason the ornamentations are reproduced as fas as possible in such a manner as not to seperate them from their background, but are shown in unison with the object on which they are found. At any rate the plates depict comprehensive sections showing all the characteristics of the material and shape which, in nearly all cases, permit of a conception of the whole." -- Introduction.
Notes: Half-title: Weyhe's ornament

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"Translated from the German by L. Hamilton."