Herbert Stattler - Ornament Stadt monokultur and the Agricultural Show

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Herbert Stattler - Ornament Stadt monokultur and the Agricultural ShowIn his book Ornament Stadt [Ornament City], the Austrian artist Herbert Stattler transferred 16 designs of ideal cities into precise pencil drawings. Urban utopias from the Renaissance to the 20th century are reproduced by Stattler again and again, until the ideal city is multiplied into an ornament: fans and concentric circles, repeating bubbles and dispersing stars. In the detail, however, in the movement of the pencil that repeats the original,