Histories of ornament
Subtitle: from global to local
By: edited by Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne ; with contributions by Michele Bacci [and 25 others]
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780691167282
Subjects: Architectural Decoration and ornament; Decoration and ornament
Description: "This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic sections on the significance, influence, and role of ornament, the book addresses ornament's current revival in architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East, and its place in the context of industrialization and modernism. Throughout, Histories of Ornament emphasizes the portability and politics of ornament, figuration versus abstraction, cross-cultural dialogues, and the constant negotiation of local and global traditions." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture; title: Part II. Ornament between Historiography and Theory; title: Part III. Medieval Mediations; title: Part IV. Early Modern Crosscurrents; title: Part V. Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction; title: Part VI. Circulations and Translations of Ornament; title: Part VII. Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction.