Histories of ornament : from global to local / Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne ; With contributions by Michele Bacci, Anna Contadini, Thomas B.F. Cummins, Chanchal Dadlani, Daniela del Pesco, Vittoria Di Palma, Anne Dunlop, Marzia Faietti, María Judith Feliciano, Finbarr Barry Flood, Jonathan Hay, Christopher P. Heuer, Rémi Labrusse, Gülru Necipoğlu, Marco Rosario Nobile, Oya Pancaroğlu, Spyros Papapetros, Alina Payne, Antoine Picon, David Pullins, Jennifer L. Roberts, David J. Roxburgh, Hashim Sarkis, Robin Schuldenfrei, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf. - viii, 454 pages ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-442) and index.

Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture -- Ornament between Historiography and Theory -- Medieval Mediations -- Early Modern Crosscurrents -- Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction -- Circulations and Translations of Ornament -- Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction.

9780691167282 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015022263


Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

NA3310 / .H57 2016

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