Pattern : A Historical Panorama / William Justema

Identifier:REF.DP.0004

Dimensions:201 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Copyright dates:1976

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Pattern books

Description:"Pattern : A Historical Panorama" is an extensive but compact survey of world art in its most popular and enduring form -- pattern -- based on the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York. William Justema, a consultant to that museum, has written what may be called an anatomy of pattern and design, for his book is in effect a dissection of the qualities that make any of the visual arts effective...We learn by looking and comparing, and to facilitate this process in a logical manner he presents eight categories of motifs -- Animals, Enigmas, Figures, Florals, Geometrics, Novelties, Scenics, and Textures -- as nearl as possible from their historical beginnings...The core of the book is its 284 illustrations, all carefully selected to enrich the text and to review and forecast the development of pattern design, good and bad." -- front matter Also includes a bibliography, index, and sources of photographs.