Ornament and European Modernism
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-74340-3 (ISBN)
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. 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, the contributors show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament is imbued with historical and social meaning.
Loretta Vandi (Ph.D., Université de Lausanne, 1998) is Professor of Art History at the Scuola del Libro in Urbino. She has held four Samuel H. Kress fellowships. Her publications include La trasformazione del motivo dell'acanto dall'antichità al XV secolo (2002), Il Manoscritto Oliveriano 1 (2004), and Four Essays (2007).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Contributors’s Biographies
Introduction
Chapter One
Owen Jones’s Theory of Ornament
Isabelle J. Frank
Chapter Two
Function, Fiction, Flux and Silence:
Ornamental Theory, Science, and the Modern Search for Aesthetic Volition
Debra K. Schafter
Chapter Three
August Schmarsow’s Theory of Ornament
Christiane Hertel
Chapter Four
The Veil of Truth?
Van de Velde, Muthesius, and the Battle over Ornament in Modern Architecture
Ole W. Fischer
Chapter Five
Ornament, Image, and Tension in Ernst Gombrich’s Theory of PerceptionLoretta Vandi & Pavlos Jerenis
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 Halftones, color; 30 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 703 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-74340-2 / 1138743402 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-74340-3 / 9781138743403 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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