Ornament and European Modernism

From Art Practice to Art History

Loretta Vandi

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Routledge
12 September 2017

Theory of art; Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

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.

Edited by: Loretta Vandi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9781138743403
ISBN 10: 1138743402
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 12 September 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Contributors’s Biographies Introduction Chapter One Owen Jones’s Theory of Ornament Isabelle J. Frank Chapter Two Function, Fiction, Flux and Silence: Ornamental Theory, Science, and the Modern Search for Aesthetic Volition Debra K. Schafter Chapter Three August Schmarsow’s Theory of Ornament Christiane Hertel Chapter Four The Veil of Truth? Van de Velde, Muthesius, and the Battle over Ornament in Modern Architecture Ole W. Fischer Chapter Five Ornament, Image, and Tension in Ernst Gombrich’s Theory of PerceptionLoretta Vandi & Pavlos Jerenis Bibliography

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'antichità al XV secolo (2002), Il Manoscritto Oliveriano 1 (2004), and Four Essays (2007).

Reviews for Ornament and European Modernism: From Art Practice to Art History

This emphasis on the chronological margins of Modernism should not come as a surprise either, since Modernism and ornament are two notions that are often positioned in diametrically opposed way. The famous, but not always well read or contextualized slogan of Alfred Loos, `Ornament is crime', is the best-known symptom of this antagonism, which the interesting collection edited by art historian Loretta Vandi aims to question. And it does so very successfully, thanks to the rich and sophisticated historical reconstruction and close-reading of many debates, publications, and realizations having to do with ornaments. --Leonardo