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Title: Karl Blossfeldt: The Alphabet of Plants by Karl Blossfeldt, Ann Wild, Jurgen Wild, Gert Mattenklott, Ann Wilde, Jurgen Wilde ISBN: 3-8238-0364-6 Publisher: te Neues Publishing Company Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Summary: Archetypes Of Form And Structure
Comment: Form is highly mimetic in nature. A limited number of what might be called prototypical patterns find their way into an infinite number of fomal structures. For example, it is apparent upon close inspection that branching patterns of trees (best seen in winter, of course) eerily resemble arterial branching patterns of the heart as revealed by cardiologic angiography. Despite divergent functionality of the two systems, the formal architecture is almost identical! This is no accident of nature, to be sure. Karl Blossfeldt: The Alphabet Of Plants is a survey of some basic forms in nature. Its premise, as articulated in an introductory essay by Gert Mattenklott, is that "the architectonics of the modern age are built upon archaic, elemental forces. The rationally calculated workings of machines is in secret correspondence with the eternal rythym of life, and the plant serves as the model." Thus a careful, aesthetically mindful examination of the plant world is important in the first instance because it has the power to inform and expand our perceptual vocabulary. And, following on from that, to enhance our capacity for developing efficient, durable industry and for creating visually resonant art and architecture. Indeed, Blossfeldt was a sculptor by training and so the primacy and importance of form in his photography need hardly surprise us. What does surprise, however, in this eye-opening series of high contrast, texturally detailed duotone photographs (created some seventy to eighty years ago) of mostly quite unusual plant morphology, is the obvious correspondence of the geometry of plant life to so many of the constituitive and ornamental forms that make up the physical manifestations of modernity. There are only a limited number of (archetypal) patterns to be made use of, it seems, and their inventory is definable.
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Title: Art Forms in the Plant World : 120 Full-Page Photographs by Karl Blossfeldt ISBN: 0486249905 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Natural Art Forms by Karl Blossfeldt ISBN: 0486400034 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel ISBN: 0486229874 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1974 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Karl Blossfeldt (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Hans Christian Adam ISBN: 382285509X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach, Richard Hartmann, Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt ISBN: 3791319906 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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