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Islamic Art and Architecture: The System of Geometric Design

Islamic Art and Architecture: The System of Geometric Design

Islamic Art and Architecture: The System of Geometric Design

$44.95

El-Said, Issam

Cl. Reading, 2008

Book ID: 78480

The distinct character of Islamic art has been sustained throughout centuries and across diverse eras, regions, and cultures by geometric concepts of composition. This fascinating book pinpoints the rules of composition that form the basis of this unity and shows how intricate patterns are based on these principles rather than on complex trigonometry and formulae.

135 pp., 112 color illus.