The World of Forms

Wilhelm Ostwald (Autor)

Buch

160 Seiten

2017
Spector Books OHG (Verlag)
978-3-944669-30-4 (ISBN)

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In 1922, the naturalist and Nobel prize-winning physicist Wilhelm Ostwald published his morphology “The Harmony of Forms”. Until 1928, four portfolios followed this publication under the title “The World of Forms”, in which Ostwald extended his doctrine to a form of explicit programming. The 240 series of shapes printed on transparent sheets can be freely combined. Ostwald’s formal doctrine influenced not only the Werkbund, but also the Bauhaus and the Dutch art movement De Stijl. Even though his theory of shapes was enthusiastically adapted by Moholy-Nagy, as well as later in the concrete art of Max Bill, Karl Gerstner and especially Hans Hinterreiter, among many others, it has been largely forgotten today—in contrast to Wilhelm Ostwald’s color theory. The publication unites and comments the works between the poles of ornament and art, system and construction, and scientific and artistic determinations of form.

Der Chemiker, Physiker und Philosoph Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) war Gründer und Herausgeber der für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften bedeutenden Sammlung 'Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften'. 1909 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Chemie für seine Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Katalyse.

Verlagsort	Leipzig
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 210 mm
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
Schlagworte	Monographie • Philipp Paulsen • Wilhelm Ostwald
ISBN-10	3-944669-30-4 / 3944669304
ISBN-13	978-3-944669-30-4 / 9783944669304
Zustand	Neuware