Le svastika courbé et autres motifs virguloïdes dans l´art populaire basque

Veyrin, Philippe

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-917-7

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Summary

As the starting in his motion, Philippe Veyrin bases himself on the article by Adolphe Riff on the curved swastika in Alsacian popular, a decorative motif that has another area of dissemination in the Basque provinces.The basic drawing of this motif presents the form of a gross comma, the result of a division in two equal parts of a circle by a sinusoid curve.