Wallpaper and the Artist

Download or read book Wallpaper and the Artist written by Marilyn Oliver Hapgood and published by Special Publication; 27. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how major artists over the last five centuries have approached wallpaper design. From Durer, who conceived his designs as seriously as he did a fine woodcut, to William Morris, who believed that wallpaper, like all good design, should transform our lives, to Andy Warhol, whose fascination with multiple images inspired brilliant parodies of the wallpaper tradition, the artists represented here reveal the rich complexity inherent in the art of pattern and form that constitutes wallpaper design.