Ornament and European Modernism -

Ornament and European Modernism

From Art Practice to Art History

Loretta Vandi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
218 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09639-1 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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.
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
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Art History
Zusatzinfo 8 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 1-032-09639-X / 103209639X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-09639-1 / 9781032096391
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