Title:Through the labyrinth : designs and meanings over 5000 years / Hermann Kern.

Author:Kern, Hermann.

Published:Munich ; London : Prestel, 2000.

Physical description:360p. : ill.(some col.), maps ; 32cm.

ISBN:3791321447

Contributors:Saward, Jeff.

Notes:Based on German rev. ed., 1983, with updates for this English ed. by Jeff Saward.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:Labyrinths--Social aspects.


Labyrinths.

As a graphic, linear figure, a labyrinth is best defined first in terms of form. Its round or rectangular shae makes sense only when viewed from above, like the ground plan of a uilding. Seen as such, the lines appear as delineating walls and the space between them as a path, the legendary "thread of Ariadne." The walls themselves are unimportant. Their sole function is to mark a path, to define choreographically, as it were, the fixed pattern of movement.