Ornament and Abstraction The Dialogue Between Non Western, Modern and Contemporary Art

Name: Ornament and Abstraction The Dialogue Between Non Western, Modern and Contemporary Art
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ISBN: 9780300092264

ISBN-10: 0300092261

ISBN-13: 9780300092264

Edition: 2001

Authors: Markus Brï¿½derlin

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This catalogue features four artists whose work helps to highlight the role of ornament in the history of art: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Matisse and Stella.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.488
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Introduction: Ornament and Abstraction



Stilfragen 1893



The Arabesque and the Islamic View of the World



The Constructive Ornament - Vienna's Contribution to Abstraction



Ornamentation and Recollection - Matisse, Kandinsky and Mondrian



The Quick Meaning - Ornament and Non-Western Art



Rationalisation in the Service of Tradition - Ornamental and Serial Forms in Modern Art



Point and Line to Raster - On the Genealogy of Computer Graphics



Islamic Ornament and Western Abstraction - Some Critical Remarks on an Elective Affinity


The Exhibition in Ten Chapters



Prologue East - West: Bans on Images from Moses Via Muhammed to Malevich and Rothko



In the Beginning was the Ornament - From the Arabesque to Modernism's Abstract Line



Munich: The Dissection of the Arabesque and its Transplantation into Abstraction



Vienna: The Birth of Abstraction through the Spirit of the Ornament



Invading the Wall - De Stijl and Conceptual Art



Ornament and Paradise or the Triumph of the Surface



The War of Signs - Peace in Ornament. The Ornament as a Bridge Between Cultures



The Picture Becomes Ornament - Frank Stella and the Ornament from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century



The Ornamentalisation of Modernism - Painting in the Eighties and Nineties



The (Digital) Mass Ornament


List of Exhibited Works


Bibliography


Quotation Credits


Photo Credits


The Authors