Ornament: A Modern PerspectiveUniversity of Washington Press, 2003 - 265 páginas Ornament - "the art we add to art," as James Trilling defines it - makes people happy; it stands for everything that makes life worth living. But ornament was effectively banned from our world almost a century ago, with modernism's doctrine that ornament was a betrayal of the beauty of function. Devotion to modernism stripped away our historical awareness of ornament and broke the tradition of craft that once kept ornament alive. Now that modernism is itself receding into history, ornament is again acceptable, but moving forward seems to mean reinventing the wheel. "Not since the artists and connoisseurs of fifteenth-century Italy set out to rediscover classical antiquity has a culture been so completely on its own in relation to the past," Trilling writes. This engaging, 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. James Trilling is a writer and art historian. He is former associate curator of Old World textiles at The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island |
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... late nineteenth century 6. G. C. Haité , printed textile , c . 1890 7. " Carpet page " from the Lindesfarne Gospels , British Isles , c . 700 8. Kelly Miller , tattoo , American , 1991 9. Louis Comfort Tiffany , vase , American , 1893 ...
... late nineteenth century 6. G. C. Haité , printed textile , c . 1890 7. " Carpet page " from the Lindesfarne Gospels , British Isles , c . 700 8. Kelly Miller , tattoo , American , 1991 9. Louis Comfort Tiffany , vase , American , 1893 ...
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... late Roman , late fourth or early fifth century 43. Detail of church portal , Italian , eleventh - twelfth century 57 58 58 61 62 63 63 64 64 64 44. Brass ewer , Islamic , mid - thirteenth century 65 45. Tombstone , Iranian , 1352 46 ...
... late Roman , late fourth or early fifth century 43. Detail of church portal , Italian , eleventh - twelfth century 57 58 58 61 62 63 63 64 64 64 44. Brass ewer , Islamic , mid - thirteenth century 65 45. Tombstone , Iranian , 1352 46 ...
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... late Albert Cook , Anne Fausto - Sterling , Catherine Gill , David Gillerman , Mattiebelle Gittinger , Oleg Grabar ... late Marion J. Levy Jr. , Stephanie Merrim , Fritz Mote , Jeffrey Muller , Karen Newman , Maureen O'Brian , Cathleen ...
... late Albert Cook , Anne Fausto - Sterling , Catherine Gill , David Gillerman , Mattiebelle Gittinger , Oleg Grabar ... late Marion J. Levy Jr. , Stephanie Merrim , Fritz Mote , Jeffrey Muller , Karen Newman , Maureen O'Brian , Cathleen ...
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... late Patrick O'Brian , author of the Aubrey and Maturin novels , which were almost my only recreational reading for the two hardest years of the project . On page 43 of The Truelove it was my great good fortune to meet a relative on the ...
... late Patrick O'Brian , author of the Aubrey and Maturin novels , which were almost my only recreational reading for the two hardest years of the project . On page 43 of The Truelove it was my great good fortune to meet a relative on the ...
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... late 1930s , Matisse made collages of cut - out paper ( plate 1 ) .3 Over the years , he expanded his work in this medium , and used it almost exclusively in the last years before his death in 1954. Physically , it was an adjustment to ...
... late 1930s , Matisse made collages of cut - out paper ( plate 1 ) .3 Over the years , he expanded his work in this medium , and used it almost exclusively in the last years before his death in 1954. Physically , it was an adjustment to ...
Contenido
WHAT IS ORNAMENT? | 19 |
How Ornament Works | 21 |
How Ornament Evolves | 47 |
From Function to Meaning In Search of Universals | 71 |
Ornament Meaning Symbol In Search of Specifics | 91 |
MODERNISM AND THE REJECTION OF ORNAMENT | 113 |
Preface to Part II | 115 |
The Revolution That Never Happened | 119 |
The Flight From Enchantment Moral and Religious Objections to Ornament | 137 |
Anxieties of Industry Social and Economic Objections to the Ornament | 169 |
Modernism and the Rebirth of Ornament | 201 |
Epilogue | 227 |
Notes | 233 |
Bibliography of Ornament | 255 |
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Términos y frases comunes
abstract Adolf Loos aesthetic animals ANXIETIES OF INDUSTRY architecture Art Nouveau artifice artistic Auguste Comte Author's photo Clarence John Laughlin classical color complex Comte cosmophobia craft Crystal Palace cultural decorative art detail division of labor E. H. Gombrich eclecticism effects eighteenth century ENCHANTMENT ORNAMENT Exhibition FLIGHT FROM ENCHANTMENT function Gothic Gothic Revival Greek Hagia Sophia Henri Matisse history of ornament human idea ikat imitation implies interlace Japanese London look Loos's luxury machine marble Marx materials Matisse means medallion medieval ment modern modernist motifs Museum of Art nature never nineteenth century object original orna Ornament and Crime ORNAMENT Fig painting pattern Pazyryk Pevsner pleasure REBIRTH OF ORNAMENT rejection of ornament religious Revolution rococo Roman Ruskin sense shape shawls social society spontaneity symbol taste technique textile things tion trans transformation twentieth century University Press Vianen Victorian visual Western word worker York