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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... century 3. Pile rug , Iranian , first half of sixteenth century 4. Silk textile , Italian , early eighteenth century 5. Flat - woven rug ( cicim ) , Turkish , late nineteenth century 6. G. C. Haité , printed textile , c . 1890 7 ...
... century 3. Pile rug , Iranian , first half of sixteenth century 4. Silk textile , Italian , early eighteenth century 5. Flat - woven rug ( cicim ) , Turkish , late nineteenth century 6. G. C. Haité , printed textile , c . 1890 7 ...
Página ix
... century 15. Floor mosaic , Roman , second century 16. Inlaid felt rug , Kazakh , twentieth century 17. Teakwood doors , Iraqi , ninth century 18. Printed cotton textile , English , 1834 19. Intersecting arches with interlace ornament ...
... century 15. Floor mosaic , Roman , second century 16. Inlaid felt rug , Kazakh , twentieth century 17. Teakwood doors , Iraqi , ninth century 18. Printed cotton textile , English , 1834 19. Intersecting arches with interlace ornament ...
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... nineteenth century 36. Floor mosaic , Roman , first half of third century 37. Fragment of late roman tapestry , fifth century 38. Woven silk textile , Chinese , eighth century 39. Fragment of marble doorway , Roman , second century 40 ...
... nineteenth century 36. Floor mosaic , Roman , first half of third century 37. Fragment of late roman tapestry , fifth century 38. Woven silk textile , Chinese , eighth century 39. Fragment of marble doorway , Roman , second century 40 ...
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... century . I wrote this book to revive it . If I succeed , you will never look at a bolt of cloth — or a cathedral ... nineteenth century , books on ornament were everywhere . Anyone with an PREFACE interest knew where to turn for ...
... century . I wrote this book to revive it . If I succeed , you will never look at a bolt of cloth — or a cathedral ... nineteenth century , books on ornament were everywhere . Anyone with an PREFACE interest knew where to turn for ...
Página xiv
... nineteenth century would be like traveling in a foreign country with a hundred - year - old guidebook telling how to get around , what to see , where to eat : a fascinating historical exercise but a disaster from a practical standpoint ...
... nineteenth century would be like traveling in a foreign country with a hundred - year - old guidebook telling how to get around , what to see , where to eat : a fascinating historical exercise but a disaster from a practical standpoint ...
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