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.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Contributors' Biographies |
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| Introduction |
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1 Owen Jones's Theory of Ornament |
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2 Function, Fiction, Flux, and Silence: Ornamental Theory, Science, and the Modern Search for Aesthetic Volition |
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3 August Schmarsow's Theory of Ornament |
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4 The Veil of Truth? Van de Velde, Muthesius, and the Battle over Ornament in Modern Architecture |
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5 Ornament, Image, and Tension in Ernst Gombrich's Theory of Perception |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index of People |
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| Index of Places |
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| Index of Subjects |
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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'antichitą al XV secolo (2002), Il Manoscritto Oliveriano 1 (2004), and Four Essays (2007).
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