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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: From ornament to object
    sub title: genealogies of architectural modernism
  name:
    name part: Payne, Alina Alexandra.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
  abstract: In the late 19th century, a centuries-old preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects, including cups, saucers, chairs and tables, began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing for a new understanding of the genealogy of architectural modernism. Rather than the well-known story in which an absorption of technology and mass production created a radical aesthetic that broke decisively with the past, Payne argues for a more gradual shift, as the eloquence of architectural ornamentation was taken on by objects of daily use. As she demonstrates, the work of Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier should be seen as the culmination of a conversation about ornament dating as far back as the Renaissance. Payne looks beyond the usual suspects of philosophy and science to establish theoretical catalysts for the shift from ornament to object in the varied fields of anthropology and ethnology, art history and the museum and archaeology and psychology.
  table of contents: Semper's heritage -- The ubiquity of objects -- Art historians, objects, and empathy -- The architect's world between culture and style -- The fork in the road: Muthesius and Loos -- The aftermath: Bauhaus endgame and Le Corbusier's poetics of portability -- Conclusion: sculpture and scale.
  note: Alina Payne.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Modern
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Modern
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Decorative arts
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Decorative arts
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  subject:
    topic: ARCHITECTURE / Criticism
  subject:
    topic: DESIGN / Decorative Arts
  subject:
    topic: DESIGN / History & Criticism
  classification: NA645.5.M63 P39 2012
  classification: 724/.6
  identifier: 9780300175332 (hardback)
  identifier: 0300175337 (hardback)
  identifier: 2012002910
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120126
    record change date: 20150922104637.0
    record identifier: in00002767269