Ornament
Subtitle: A Modern Perspective (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780295981482
Subjects: Cultural studies; Decorative arts & crafts; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Modernism (Art); Design - Decorative; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Modernism in art; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Decoration and ornament; History - General
Description: "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.