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Ornament : a modern perspective

This text 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
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Washington Press, Seattle, ©2003
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xxi, 265 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
9780295981482, 0295981482
46472239
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."