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 Panca...
viii, 454 pages : illustrations (chiefly in color) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2016
Contents:
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
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
Topic:
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Search this
