Histories of Ornament : From Global to Local / edited by Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne ; With contributions by Michele Bacci, Anna Contadini, Thomas B.F. Cummins, Chanchal Dadlani, Daniela del Pesco, Vittoria Di Palma, Anne Dunlop, Marzia Faietti, María Judith Feliciano, Finbarr Barry Flood, Jonathan Hay, Christopher P. Heuer, Rémi Labrusse, Gülru Necipoğlu, Marco Rosario Nobile, Oya Pancaroğlu, Spyros Papapetros, Alina Payne, Antoine Picon, David Pullins, Jennifer L. Roberts, David J. Roxburgh, Hashim Sarkis, Robin Schuldenfrei, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Description:

viii, 454 pages ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-442) and index.
Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture -- Ornament between Historiography and Theory -- Medieval Mediations -- Early Modern Crosscurrents -- Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction -- Circulations and Translations of Ornament -- Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780691167282 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691167281 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux.
architectural ornament.
20.20 iconography.
21.80 decorative art: general.
Ornamentik.
Konstnärlig utsmyckning.
Arkitektur.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Necipoğlu, Gülru, editor.
Payne, Alina Alexandra, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292182
Call No.: BIB 236275
Status: Available

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