Ornament and object—ornament as object. Alina Payne, From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernity, Yale University Press, 2012

What would be the relationship between the rich historiography of ornament in the late nineteenth century and ornament’s ostensible eclipse from early twentieth-century building practice? Alina Payne’s From Ornament to Object retraces the gradual shift in interest from the endless stylistic iteratio...

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Main Author: Spyros Papapetros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/papapetros-review.pdf