Symmetries of Culture

Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis

• Author(s): Dorothy Koster Washburn, Donald Warren Crowe,
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Pages: 299
• ISBN_10: 0295970847
  ISBN_13: 9780295970844
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / General , Art / Study & Teaching , Design / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... A very appealing book. It deals with the analysis of repetitive patterns in decorative art as a means of classifying designs. A collaboration by an anthropologist (Washburn, U. Rochester) and a mathematician (Crowe, U. of Wisc.), it makes only the gentlest use of math/geometry, the principles of which are presented. These allow a discussion of color symmetry, one- and two-dimensional patterns, and finite design. History and problems of classification are covered. An important work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR