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Titel och upphov Rethinking decoration : pleasure and ideology in the visual arts
Utgivning, distribution etc. Cambridge University Press , New York : 2005
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This book offers theoretical and practical reinterpretations of the decorative by addressing a neglected topic: the significance of decoration. Concerned with the central problem of taste, David Brett asks how individual pleasure and social function suffuse one another, drawing examples from architecture, fashion, textiles, ceramics, and the whole domain of visual and plastic arts. Using theoretical propositions derived from a critical approach to the concept of aesthetic experience, and from study of perceptual psychology and psychoanalytic theory, Brett focuses on historical instances of decoration and ornament significant to the development of a 'visual ideology'. He considers a variety of attempts at the rejection of decorative value, and proposes a 'poetics of workmanship', which deals with the metaphorical power of material processes.
List of Illustrations p. vii Acknowledgements p. xi Introduction p. 1 Discourse & experience p. 13 Touching & seeing p. 36 Some topics to consider p. 43 Edge p. 43 Shape/Objects p. 48 Surface/Texture p. 52 Colour/Space p. 54 Stability p. 61 Decoration and Gestalt p. 62 Figure/Ground Relations p. 64 Directionality p. 68 Simplicity p. 68 Unity or "Closure" p. 68 Proportion p. 70 Touch and sight p. 71 Some general reflections p. 74 Thresholds & transitions p. 76 Sociability & pleasure p. 105 The vicissitudes of Nature: natural philosophy and science in nineteenth-century surface pattern p. 106 Ornament, colour and surface in the Alhambra p. 136 Drawing p. 138 Colour and Light p. 140 Tactility p. 144 Language and Script p. 146 Nature p. 149 Visual Ideology p. 150 Orientalism, the Alhambra, and colour in the nineteenth-century architecture: a digression p. 150 The politics of display: ornament and emblem in Tudor England p. 156 Drawing p. 176 Colour p. 178 Language p. 179 Nature p. 180 Visual Ideology p. 182 The refusal p. 184 Toward a poetics of workmanship p. 215 Warp and weft: the text-tile tectonic p. 222 Stacking, masonry and the decorated mass p. 232 The hearth, the oven and the forge p. 241 The post, the beam, and the joint p. 244 The task of rethinking: an afterword p. 251 Notes p. 267 Bibliography p. 281 Index p. 287