Skip to search
Skip to main content
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Ornament and European modernism : from art practice to art history / edited by Loretta Vandi.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York ; London : Routledge, 2018.
Description
198 pages : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
NK1175 .O764 2018
Browse related items
Request
Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
NK1175 .O764 2018
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Decoration and ornament
—
Psychological aspects
[Browse]
Decoration and ornament
—
Social aspects
[Browse]
Decoration and ornament
—
History
[Browse]
Modernism (Art)
[Browse]
Editor
Vandi, Loretta
[Browse]
Series
Routledge research in art history
[More in this series]
Summary note
Through in-depth essays on selected issues related to the meaning of ornament and its theoretical importance for the formation of modernism especially in England, Austria, and Germany, the collection re-examines two issues in particular: on the one hand the critical discourse that appeared at the end of the nineteenth century focused on the relationship between art practice, art theory and the rising of modernism, and, on the other, the operative value ornament came to acquire in the construction, settling, and revision of the discipline of art history. The essay volume deals also with the falling into pieces of the long-sought and never-secured unity of art and ornament that marks out the entrance of modernity. Contributors to the volume treat these ill-defined aspects of the separation-process which juts forth into postmodernism. The essays, ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament lends itself to probe historical transformations.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction
Owen Jones's theory of ornament / Isabelle J. Frank
Function, fiction, flux, and silence : ornamental theory, science, and the modern search for aesthetic volition / Debra K. Schafter
August Schmarsow's theory of ornament / Christiane Hertel
The veil of truth? Van de Velde, Muthesius, and the battle over ornament in modern architecture / Ole W. Fischer
Ornament, image, and tension in Ernst Gombrich's theory of perception / Loretta Vandi and Pavlos Jerenis
Bibliography
Index of people
Index of places
Index of subjects.
Show 7 more Contents items
ISBN
9781138743403
1138743402
OCLC
975368637
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Ornament and European modernism : from art practice to art history / ed. by Loretta Vandi.
id
99123806963506421
Ornament and European modernism : from art practice to art history / edited by Loretta Vandi.
id
SCSB-8959641