The traditional houses of Damascus date from the 18th and 19th centuries but fragments and written accounts reveal that such interiors existed in the 17th century as well. What distinguishes these houses from other Islamic examples are not their spaces, courtyards and materials,…
This dissertation examines the decoration of the Mozarabic Chapel and Chapter Room in Toledo Cathedral commissioned by Archbishop Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (r. 1495-1517) during the first decade of the sixteenth century. Each room is an ensemble of Mudéjar, Gothic, and Renai…
The Oxford Companion to twentieth-century art
The object of this book is to develop the coloring theory for plane ornaments, that is, for periodic tilings of the Euclidean plane. Such tilings derive from the ornamental art of diverse cultures: Sumerian cone mosaics, Egyptian tomb paintings, Chinese window lattices, Greek bo…
The object of this book is to develop the coloring theory for plane ornaments, that is, for periodic tilings of the Euclidean plane. Such tilings derive from the ornamental art of diverse cultures: Sumerian cone mosaics, Egyptian tomb paintings, Chinese window lattices, Greek bo…
"The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelin…
