Japanese Design Motifs (eBook)

4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests

Matsuya Company (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
18 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-15530-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms, from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations.

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This collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world.Most of these motifs are circular, and they can all be fitted into a square. Within those limitations is a seemingly endless range of designs, beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs — rice plant, gingko, scallop, lightning, anchor, spool, raft, candle, scissors, fern, saki bottle, lotus blossom, mountain arrow, pine, wisteria, ship, rabbit, and scores of others. Practically every kind of plant, bird, animal, natural phenomenon, and manufactured object of Japanese culture was at one time or another included in a family crest. In addition, each of the root designs was treated to dozens of imaginative variations — they were reproduced bilaterally, in triangles, diamonds, five- and six-pointed stars, in spirals, were built up in series, made to overlap, combined with each other, and so on. Some of these are classic and recognizable designs, like the yin-yang, linked rings, and treasure knot. Many of the others have rarely been seen in the West.Graphic artists, textile designers, pattern-makers, advertisers, and other commercial artists looking for an untapped source of novel, appealing designs will find a wealth of material here. Some of these motifs can be used to suggest an exotic flavor, and others are universal and can be used almost anywhere.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Pictorial Archive
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 699 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Art Nouveau • art tradition • blossoms • Bookbinding • books on art nouveaus • books on art traditions • books on blossoms • books on catalogues • books on clip arts • books on clips • books on cloths • books on crests • books on deconstructions • books on design elements • books on designers • books on dozens • books on emblems • books on fabrics • books on family crests • books on glaser • books on graphic designs • books on graphics • books on hornung • books on japanese arts • books on japanese cultures • books on japanese families • books on kamon • books on logos • books on mons • books on motifs • books on negative spaces • books on olympics • books on polishes • books on quilting patterns • books on silhouette • books on stencils • books on symbolisms • books on textiles • books on variations • catalogue • Circular • Clip • Clip Art • cloth • crests • Deconstruction • design elements • Designers • dozens • Emblems • Fabric • family crest • Floral • Geometric • Glaser • graphic designs • graphics • Hornung • Japanese art • Japanese culture • Japanese family • Kamon • Logos • Mons • motifs • negative space • Olympics • Persian • Polish • quilting patterns • reproduced • Silhouette • soviet • Stencil • stenciling • Symbolism • Textiles • traditional japanese • ukiyo-e prints • Variations
• ISBN-10: 0-486-15530-7 / 0486155307
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-15530-2 / 9780486155302