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Histories of ornament: from global to local
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Princeton University Press
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
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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.
Introduction / Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne
Part I. Contemporaneity of ornament in architecture. Ornament and its users: From the Vitruvian tradition to the digital age / Antoine Picon
A natural history of ornament / Vittoria Di Palma
Inscription: On the surface of exchange between writing, ornament, and tectonic in contemporary architecture / Hashim Sarkis
Part II. Ornament between historiography and theory. Ornament as weapon: Ballistics, politics, and architectural adornment in Semper's treatise on ancient projectiles / Spyros Papapetros
The passage of the other: Elements for a redefinition of ornament / Jonathan Hay
The invention of Mudejar art and the Viceregal aesthetic paradox: Notes on the reception of Iberian ornament in New Spain / María Judith Feliciano
The flaw in the carpet: Disjunctive continuities and Riegl's arabesque / Finbarr Barry Flood
Part III. Medieval mediations. Vesting walls, displaying structure, crossing cultures: Transmedial and transmaterial dynamics of ornament / Gerhard Wolf
Gothic-framed Byzantine icons: Italianate ornament in the Levant during the late middle ages / Michele Bacci
Timurid architectural revetment in Central Asia, 1370-1430: The mimeticism of mosaic faience / David J. Roxburgh
Part IV. Early modern crosscurrents. Early modern floral: The agency of ornament in Ottoman and Safavid visual cultures / Gülru Necipoğlu
Ornamental defacement and Protestant iconoclasm / Christopher P. Heuer
Migration of techniques: Inlaid marble floral decoration in Baroque Naples / Daniela del Pesco
Innovation, appropriation, and representation: Mughal architectural ornament in the eighteenth century / Chanchal Dadlani
Part V. Ornament between figuration and abstraction. Ornament, form, and vision in ceramics from medieval Iran: Reflections of the human image / Oya Pancaroğlu
variety and metamorphosis: Form and meaning in the ornament of Amico Aspertini / Marzia Faietti
Images as objects: The problem of figural ornament in eighteenth-century France / David Pullins
Ornament and vice: The foreign, the mobile, and the Cocharelli fragments / Anne Dunlop
Gilded bodies and brilliant walls: Ornament in America before and after the European conquest / Thomas B. F. Cummins
Part VI. Circulations and translations of ornament. The poetics of portability / Avinoam Shalem
"This is Babel": Sicily, the Mediterranean Islands, and Southern Italy (1450-1550)
Marco Rosario Nobile
Wrapped in fabric: Florentine façades, Mediterranean textiles, and a-tectonic ornament in the Renaissance / Alina Payne
Threads of ornament in the style world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Anna Contadini
Part VII. Internationalism of ornament and modernist abstraction. The currency of ornament: Machine-lathed anticounterfeiting patterns and the portability of value / Jennifer L. Roberts
Grammars of ornament: Dematerialization and embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee / Rémi Labrusse
Sober ornament: Materiality and luxury in German modern architecture and design / Robin Schuldenfrei.
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