Main entry:

Trilling, James, 1948-

Title & Author:

Ornament : a modern perspective / James Trilling.

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2003.

Description:

xxi, 265 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index.
How Ornament Works -- How Ornament Evolves -- From Function to Meaning: In Search of Universals -- Ornament, Meaning, Symbol: In Search of Specifics -- Modernism and the Rejection of Ornament -- The Revolution That Never Happened -- The Flight from Enchantment: Moral and Religious Objections to Ornament -- Anxieties of Industry: Social and Economic Objections to Ornament -- Modernism and the Rebirth of Ornament.

Summary:

This text is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained and why it matters.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0295981482 (acid-free paper)
9780295981482 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Decoration and ornament.
Modernism (Art)
Modernisme (Art)
Décoration et ornement.
Beeldende kunsten.
Ornamentiek.
Artes decorativas (aspectos sociais;psicologia;história)
Modernismo.

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231673
Call No.: NK1175 .T55 2003
Status: Available