This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic sections on the significance, influence, and role of ornament, the book addresses ornament's current revival in architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East, and its place in the context of industrialization and modernism. Throughout, Histories of Ornament emphasizes the portability and politics of ornament, figuration versus abstraction, cross-cultural dialogues, and the constant negotiation of local and global traditions. Featuring original essays by more than two dozen scholars from around the world, this authoritative and wide-ranging book provides an indispensable reference on the histories of ornament in a global context. Contributors include: Michele Bacci (Fribourg University); Anna Contadini (University of London); Thomas B. F. Cummins (Harvard); Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest); Daniela del Pesco (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre); Vittoria Di Palma (USC); Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne); Marzia Faietti (University of Bologna); Maria Judith Feliciano (independent scholar); Finbarr Barry Flood (NYU); Jonathan Hay (NYU); Christopher P. Heuer (Clark Art); Remi Labrusse (Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre la Defense); Gulru Necipo lu (Harvard); Marco Rosario Nobile (University of Palermo); Oya Pancaro lu (Bosphorus University); Spyros Papapetros (Princeton); Alina Payne (Harvard); Antoine Picon (Harvard); David Pullins (Harvard); Jennifer L. Roberts (Harvard); David J. Roxburgh (Harvard); Hashim Sarkis (MIT); Robin Schuldenfrei (Courtauld); Avinoam Shalem (Columbia); and Gerhard Wolf (KHI, Florence).
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"After its famous denunciation by Adolf Loos, ornament seemed a wasteful frivolity to most architects and designers. But that attitude has lost steam in recent years, as firms derive much of their revenue by building in places with a healthier regard for pattern and decoration. Right at the outset, this scholarly tome firmly establishes the vitality of architectural ornament today, leaving readers to peruse premodern histories after having shed their Loosian prejudice."--Metropolis "[ A] handsome book."--Peter Parker, A Magazine for RIBA Friends of Architecture "[ An] important volume ... seamlessly edited by Necipo?lu and Payne, [ the book] covers an unprecedented and stringent collection of scholarly research and reflection. It is not a history of ornament per se, but rather a rigorous and sometimes cautionary record of the history of ornament's shifting meaning and theoretical basis. This volume assesses ornament as a legitimate aspect of designing the future built environment. It is neither elegy nor encyclopedia; the purpose instead is summed up simply in the editors' introduction as 'to address what ornament does [ and did].' The result is a summons to surrender preconceived notions about ornament as somehow apart from or inferior to architecture in its full range of possible expression."--Paul Gunther, Architect's Newspaper "An exceptionally stimulating ... collection of essays on a topic that is certain to be of increasing importance to our discipline."--Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Introduction 1 Gulru Necipoglu and Alina Payne Part I Contemporaneity
of Ornament in Architecture
Chapter 1 Ornament and Its Users: From the
Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital Age 10 Antoine Picon
Chapter 2 A Natural
History of Ornament 20 Vittoria Di Palma
Chapter 3 Inscription: On the
Surface of Exchange between Writing, Ornament, and Tectonic in Contemporary
Architecture 34 Hashim Sarkis Part II Ornament between Historiography and
Theory
Chapter 4 Ornament as Weapon: Ballistics, Politics, and Architectural
Adornment in Semper's Treatise on Ancient Projectiles 46 Spyros Papapetros
Chapter 5 The Passage of the Other: Elements for a Redefinition of Ornament
62 Jonathan Hay
Chapter 6 The Invention of Mudejar Art and the Viceregal
Aesthetic Paradox: Notes on the Reception of Iberian Ornament in New Spain 70
Maria Judith Feliciano
Chapter 7 The Flaw in the Carpet: Disjunctive
Continuities and Riegl's Arabesque 82 Finbarr Barry Flood Part III Medieval
Mediations
Chapter 8 Vesting Walls, Displaying Structure, Crossing Cultures:
Transmedial and Transmaterial Dynamics of Ornament 96 Gerhard Wolf
Chapter
9 Gothic-Framed Byzantine Icons: Italianate Ornament in the Levant during the
Late Middle Ages 106 Michele Bacci
Chapter 10 Timurid Architectural
Revetment in Central Asia, 1370-1430: The Mimeticism of Mosaic Faience 116
David J. Roxburgh Part IV Early Modern Crosscurrents
Chapter 11 Early
Modern Floral: The Agency of Ornament in Ottoman and Safavid Visual Cultures
132 Gulru Necipoglu
Chapter 12 Ornamental Defacement and Protestant
Iconoclasm 156 Christopher P. Heuer
Chapter 13 Migration of Techniques:
Inlaid Marble Floral Decoration in Baroque Naples 166 Daniela del Pesco
Chapter 14 Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal
Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century 178 Chanchal Dadlani Part
V Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction
Chapter 15 Ornament, Form, and
Vision in Ceramics from Medieval Iran: Reflections of the Human Image 192
Oya Pancaroglu
Chapter 16 Variety and Metamorphosis: Form and Meaning in the
Ornament of Amico Aspertini 204 Marzia Faietti
Chapter 17 Images as
Objects: The Problem of Figural Ornament in Eighteenth-Century France 216
David Pullins
Chapter 18 Ornament and Vice: The Foreign, the Mobile, and the
Cocharelli Fragments 228 Anne Dunlop
Chapter 19 Gilded Bodies and Brilliant
Walls: Ornament in America before and after the European Conquest 238 Thomas
B. F. Cummins Part VI Circulations and Translations of Ornament
Chapter 20
The Poetics of Portability 250 Avinoam Shalem
Chapter 21 "This Is Babel":
Sicily, the Mediterranean Islands, and Southern Italy (1450-1550) 262 Marco
Rosario Nobile
Chapter 22 Wrapped in Fabric: Florentine Facades,
Mediterranean Textiles, and A-TectonicOrnament in the Renaissance 274 Alina
Payne
Chapter 23 Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries 290 Anna Contadini Part VII Internationalism of
Ornament and Modernist Abstraction
Chapter 24 The Currency of Ornament:
Machine-Lathed Anticounterfeiting Patterns and the Portability of Value 308
Jennifer L. Roberts
Chapter 25 Grammars of Ornament: Dematerialization and
Embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee 320 Remi Labrusse
Chapter 26 Sober
Ornament: Materiality and Luxury in German Modern Architecture and Design 334
Robin Schuldenfrei Acknowledgments 349 Notes 351 Bibliography 411
Contributors 443 Index 445 Photo Credits 453
Gulru Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton) and The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Alina Payne is the Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. She is the author of The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance and From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism.
