Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets

Name: Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets
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ISBN: 9780195208665

ISBN-10: 0195208668

ISBN-13: 9780195208665

Edition: 1993

Authors: Christopher Alexander

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Christopher Alexander owns what many now believe to be the finest collection of early Turkish carpets in the western world, with perhaps half being the only specimens of their kind anywhere. In this richly illustrated, oversized volume--featuring four hundred illustrations, eighty in full color--Alexander takes readers on an engaging tour of his fabulous collection. Readers will see a 13th-century Seljuk Carpet with Dragons, a 15th-century Animal Carpet, a scarlet-niched Transylvanian Prayer Rug, a turquoise Lattice Carpet from Alcaraz, a 16th-century blue Medallion Keyhole Design from Bergama, a rare 16th-century White Field Bird Carpet, the dazzling color and brilliant geometry of a…

Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/11/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 12.06" wide x 8.50" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 3.256
Language: English



Introduction



The Beauty of Early Turkish Carpets



The original creature



Color and light



Objective wholeness: the mirror of the self



The building blocks of wholeness



The multiplicity of centers



Centers and local symmetries



Density of centers and local symmetries



Positive space



Differentiation



Levels of scale



The creation of a complex center



The role and character of animals



Emergence of a being



Afterword: The Konya district



Dating and Progression of Early Carpets



The Carpets



The Degeneration of the Art