Ornament : a modern perspective / James Trilling.
"This generously illustrated book - part visual guide part cultural history - is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism, and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2003]
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| Summary: | "This generously illustrated book - part visual guide part cultural history - is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism, and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained, and why it matters. His discussion of ornament - in textiles, ceramics, metalwork, architecture, manuscripts and books - is enhanced by insights drawn from religion, science, ancient and modern literature, political history, and moral philosophy. The result is a resoundingly, original, highly readable contribution to art history and more broadly, to cultural and social history."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | "A Samuel and Althea Stroum book"--T.p. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 265 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0295981482 9780295981482 |