Main entry:

Knight, Terry Weissman, 1952-

Title & Author:

Transformations in design : a formal approach to stylistic change and innovation in the visual arts / Terry W. Knight.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Description:

xvii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-254) and index.
Style and stylistic change : the tradition -- Languages and transformations : a new approach -- Shape grammars : a standard format -- Recursive structures of shape grammars -- Transformations of shape grammars -- Transformations of the meander motif on Greek Geometric pottery -- Transformations of De Stijl art : the paintings of Georges Vantongerloo and Fritz Glarner -- The transformation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses into his Usonian houses.
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Summary:

Style and stylistic change are central issues in the study of art and architecture. Over the past hundred years various important theories of style and its changes have been proposed by scholars in a diversity of disciplines, from the historian Heinrich Wolfflin to the economist Herbert Simon. In this book, a new and innovative approach is developed that looks not only at traditional questions about stylistic change but also sets up a formal model through which to analyse change and to structure innovation. Styles are defined in terms of rule-based, compositional systems called shape grammars. Shape grammars have been used widely in recent years to describe a variety of styles in architecture, landscape design, painting and the decorative arts. As this book demonstrates, stylistic change is characterised in terms of different transformations of the grammars that define styles.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0521384605 (hardback)
9780521384605 (hardback)
0521386144
9780521386142

Subject:

Design History 20th century.
Computer-aided design.
Computer-Aided Design
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Conception assistée par ordinateur.
computer-aided designs (visual works)
computer-aided design (process)
Design
Architektur
Kunst
Mathematisches Modell
Stilwandel
Beeldende kunsten.
Stilistiek.
Vernieuwing.
Decorative arts History 20th century.
Design 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116419
Call No.: ID NK1510.K55; ID:95-B1139
Status: Available