{"product_id":"histories-of-ornament-9780691167282","title":"Histories of Ornament","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"After its famous denunciation by Adolf Loos, ornament seemed a wasteful frivolity to most architects and designers. But that attitude has lost steam in recent years, as firms derive much of their revenue by building in places with a healthier regard for pattern and decoration. Right at the outset, this scholarly tome firmly establishes the vitality of architectural ornament today, leaving readers to peruse premodern histories after having shed their Loosian prejudice.\"--Metropolis \"[A] handsome book.\"--Peter Parker, A Magazine for RIBA Friends of Architecture \"[An] important volume ... seamlessly edited by Necipo?lu and Payne, [the book] covers an unprecedented and stringent collection of scholarly research and reflection. It is not a history of ornament per se, but rather a rigorous and sometimes cautionary record of the history of ornament's shifting meaning and theoretical basis. This volume assesses ornament as a legitimate aspect of designing the future built environment. It is neither elegy nor encyclopedia; the purpose instead is summed up simply in the editors' introduction as 'to address what ornament does [and did].' The result is a summons to surrender preconceived notions about ornament as somehow apart from or inferior to architecture in its full range of possible expression.\"--Paul Gunther, Architect's Newspaper \"An exceptionally stimulating ... collection of essays on a topic that is certain to be of increasing importance to our discipline.\"--Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1  Gulru Necipoglu and Alina Payne  Part I Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture  Chapter 1 Ornament and Its Users: From the Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital Age 10  Antoine Picon  Chapter 2 A Natural History of Ornament 20  Vittoria Di Palma  Chapter 3 Inscription: On the Surface of Exchange between Writing, Ornament, and Tectonic in Contemporary Architecture 34  Hashim Sarkis  Part II Ornament between Historiography and Theory  Chapter 4 Ornament as Weapon: Ballistics, Politics, and Architectural Adornment in Semper's Treatise on Ancient Projectiles 46  Spyros Papapetros  Chapter 5 The Passage of the Other: Elements for a Redefinition of Ornament 62  Jonathan Hay  Chapter 6 The Invention of Mudejar Art and the Viceregal Aesthetic Paradox: Notes on the Reception of Iberian Ornament in New Spain 70  Maria Judith Feliciano  Chapter 7 The Flaw in the Carpet: Disjunctive Continuities and Riegl's Arabesque 82  Finbarr Barry Flood  Part III Medieval Mediations  Chapter 8 Vesting Walls, Displaying Structure, Crossing Cultures: Transmedial and Transmaterial Dynamics of Ornament 96  Gerhard Wolf  Chapter 9 Gothic-Framed Byzantine Icons: Italianate Ornament in the Levant during the Late Middle Ages 106  Michele Bacci  Chapter 10 Timurid Architectural Revetment in Central Asia, 1370-1430: The Mimeticism of Mosaic Faience 116  David J. Roxburgh  Part IV Early Modern Crosscurrents  Chapter 11 Early Modern Floral: The Agency of Ornament in Ottoman and Safavid Visual Cultures 132  Gulru Necipoglu  Chapter 12 Ornamental Defacement and Protestant Iconoclasm 156  Christopher P. Heuer  Chapter 13 Migration of Techniques: Inlaid Marble Floral Decoration in Baroque Naples 166  Daniela del Pesco  Chapter 14 Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century 178  Chanchal Dadlani  Part V Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction  Chapter 15 Ornament, Form, and Vision in Ceramics from Medieval Iran: Reflections of the Human Image 192  Oya Pancaroglu  Chapter 16 Variety and Metamorphosis: Form and Meaning in the Ornament of Amico Aspertini 204  Marzia Faietti  Chapter 17 Images as Objects: The Problem of Figural Ornament in Eighteenth-Century France 216  David Pullins  Chapter 18 Ornament and Vice: The Foreign, the Mobile, and the Cocharelli Fragments 228  Anne Dunlop  Chapter 19 Gilded Bodies and Brilliant Walls: Ornament in America before and after the European Conquest 238  Thomas B. F. Cummins  Part VI Circulations and Translations of Ornament  Chapter 20 The Poetics of Portability 250  Avinoam Shalem  Chapter 21 \"This Is Babel\": Sicily, the Mediterranean Islands, and Southern Italy (1450-1550) 262  Marco Rosario Nobile  Chapter 22 Wrapped in Fabric: Florentine Facades, Mediterranean Textiles, and A-TectonicOrnament in the Renaissance 274  Alina Payne  Chapter 23 Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 290  Anna Contadini  Part VII Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction  Chapter 24 The Currency of Ornament: Machine-Lathed Anticounterfeiting Patterns and the Portability of Value 308  Jennifer L. Roberts  Chapter 25 Grammars of Ornament: Dematerialization and Embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee 320  Remi Labrusse  Chapter 26 Sober Ornament: Materiality and Luxury in German Modern Architecture and Design 334  Robin Schuldenfrei  Acknowledgments 349  Notes 351  Bibliography 411  Contributors 443  Index 445  Photo Credits 453","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403819229527,"sku":"9780691167282","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691167282.jpg?v=1730484637","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/histories-of-ornament-9780691167282","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}