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Celtic Art - The Methods of Construction (Paperback, New Ed)
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Celtic Art - The Methods of Construction (Paperback, New Ed)
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Celtic Art is the only indigenous British art form of world
significance and this book is a graphically eloquent plea for the
establishment of this great national art to its rightful place in
schools and colleges where the history of ornament is being taught.
Until recently, the classical orientated art-world has regarded the
abstract, iconographic and symbolic style of the Celtic artist as
something of an enigma, a mysterious archaic survival largely
ignored in histories of art. The modern trends away from realism
and the interest of the younger generation in psychedelic and art
nouveau styles provides favourable ground for the Celtic art
revival which the widespread interest in this new edition seems to
indicate is possible. When this book first appeared, it was hailed
as a 'veritable grammar of ornament'. It is certainly an
indispensable reference book and practical textbook for the art
student and craftsman seeking simple constructional methods for
laying out complex ornamental schemes. The entire chronology of
symbols is embrace from spirals through chevrons, step patterns and
keys to knotwork interlacings, which are unique to this particular
Celtic school. There are also sections dealing with zoomorphics,
authentic Celtic knitwear, ceramics and other areas in which the
author pioneered in his day. This book deals with the Pictish
School of artist-craftsman, who cut pagan symbols like the Burghead
Bull, and in the early Christian era designed such superb examples
of monumental sculpture as the Aberlemno Cross, the Ardagh Chalice
and the counter-parts in the Books of Kells and Lindisfarne.
Knotwork Interlacings, owing much of their perfection and beauty to
the use of mathematical formulae, are unique to Pictish Art and are
found nowhere else than the areas occupied by the Picts. The
outstanding achievement of their art was the subtle manner in which
they combined artistic, geometric and mathematical methods with
magic, imagination and logic, the function being both to teach and
adorn. Although incidental to the main educational purpose of this
book, there is also an implicit challenge to the art historian and
archaeologist. The author frankly admits that the evidence such
researches into the art have revealed of a hitherto unsuspected
culture of much sophistication in pre-Roman Britain, pose as many
questions as are answered. Who were the Picts? Whence the Asiatic
origins of the Celtic Art? The instinct to ornament is one of the
most basic human impulses that seems to have atavistic roots in the
primeval creative and imaginative characteristic that separates man
from beast.
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