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The Mediation of Ornament

, 2023
The author shares not only a veteran art historian's love for the sensuality of Islamic ornamentation, but also uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time ...
Oleg Grabar
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The Mass Ornament

Critical Theory and Society A Reader, 2020
ness of contemporary thinking is therefore ambivalent. From the point of view of mythological teachings, in which nature naively asserts itself, the process of abstraction as it is practiced in the natural sciences for example, is a gain in rationality ...
Siegfried Kracauer   +2 more
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ornament

Yellow Stars and Ice, 2009
A. Bell
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Ornamentalism

Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2020
“Orientalism is a critique, ornamentalism is a theory of being.” So invokes Anne Cheng in her most recent monograph Ornamentalism in which she theorizes Asiatic femininity’s haunting presence in th...
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Biological Ornament, Difficult Ornament

Abstract Different landscapes elicit different imaginative responses. The tropical abundance of Florida provides a new template for poetry in English, which originated in a northern climate. Renaissance poets and critics in England debated the merits of the plain style versus the ornate Petrarchists in a “poetomachia,” and twentieth ...
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Ornamentation

1997
Abstract In The Matter of ornamentation, Gould differed from most performers in the degree to which he avoided generic solutions to individual problems. Adapting ornamentation to articulate a musical event, or to suit the general character of a work, he often permitted himself to depart significantly from conventional and historical ...
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Ornament

This chapter assesses how US nurserymen adapted to the changing market and ecological realities. By following the businesses of the Rochester nurserymen in the early decades of the twentieth century, it tracks the transition of the plant nursery industry from one primarily suited to provide fruit-bearing plants for orchards to a model centered on ...
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Slovenski ornament (Slovene Ornament)

Books Abroad, 1936
Anthony J. Klančar, Joze Karlovšek
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