The Language of Ornament

Name: The Language of Ornament
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ISBN: 9780500203439

ISBN-10: 0500203431

ISBN-13: 9780500203439

Edition: 2001

Authors: James Trilling

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This text gives an introduction to the decorative arts and patterns since the dawn of time. This book is a companion and guide to the global panorama of ornamental terms that will be of equal value to craftworkers, collectors and students.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 6/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.100

Lisa Mintz Messinger is Associate Curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.



Preface


Introduction: What is Ornament?



Appreciating Ornament


The Lost Art of Seeing


The Structure of Ornament


The Single Image as Ornament


Pattern-Books and the Illusion of Accuracy


The Dialogue of Ornament and Functional Form


Identifying Ornamental Styles



Sketches in Art History: The Three Ages of Ornament


Paleolithic: A False Dawn?


Neolithic: The Great Apprenticeship


The Last Five Thousand Years: A Creative Explosion


Ornament and Cultural Exchange


The Paisley Pattern: A Paradigm of Cultural Exchange


The Evolution of 'Multinational' Patterns


The Medallion Style


The Vine-Scroll


Square Kufic


Ogival Patterns


Interlace



Ornament as a Conventional System


Convention in Life and Art


Ornament as a Challenge to Reality


Literalism, Naturalism, and Stylization


The Artistic Power of Materials and Techniques


Virtuosity and its Discontents



Ornament in the Age of Modernism


Prelude to Revolution


Ornament and Craft in the Modern World


Adolf Loos and the End of Artifice


Material-Based and Process-Based Ornament


The Flowering of Modernist Ornament


Determinate and Indeterminate Form


Matisse and Ornament


Ornament After Modernism


Select Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index