Islamic Patterns (Pocket)
avKeith Critchlow
ISBN: 9780500270714 - UTGIVEN: 1984-01Islamic art has long been misunderstood in the West as no more than decoration. This study explains how the geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal intrinsic cosmological laws. The primary function of the patterns is to lead the mind from the literal world towards the underlying reality.[...]
Time Stands Still (Häftad)
avKeith Critchlow
ISBN: 9780863155871 - UTGIVEN: 200706Keith Critchlow, an internationally-renowned scholar, has studied a wide range of Neolithic artefacts. In "Time Stands Still", he adopts a technique of cross-cultural comparison to uncover some previously unknown characteristics of the Neolithic people. He takes ancient temple-building manuals from [...]
Drawing Geometry (Pocket)
avJon Allen, Keith Critchlow, Jon Allen
ISBN: 9780863156083 - UTGIVEN: 200710Geometry is both elegantly simple and infinitely profound. Many professionals find they need to be able to draw geometric shapes accurately, and this unique book shows them how. It provides step-by-step instructions for constructing two-dimensional geometric shapes, which can be readily followed by [...]
The Hidden Geometry of Flowers (Pocket)
avKeith Critchlow
ISBN: 9780863158063 - UTGIVEN: 201211Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their colour, fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself, as cultural symbols in different societies, and at the highest levels of ins[...]
Islamic Patterns (Pocket)
avKeith Critchlow
ISBN: 9780892818037 - UTGIVEN: 199908The classic study of the cosmological principles found in the patterns of Islamic art and how they relate to sacred geometry and the perennial philosophy.
* 150 color and black-and-white drawings of Islamic patterns.
* Explains how these patterns guide the mind from the munda[...]
The Foundations of Christian Art (Pocket)
avTitus Burckhardt, Michael Oren Fitzgerald, Keith (FRW) Critchlow
ISBN: 9781933316123 - UTGIVEN: 2006-04The art historian and philosopher of religion, Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984), was one of the 20th century's most renowned experts on the art of many traditional worlds as well as the religions that illuminated the art of the civilisations which flowered from them. This book takes the reader on a pil[...]
