The Mediation of Ornament (Bollingen Series XXV, 38)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press / National Gallery of Art, 1992. Softcover. Black & color illus. wraps, 284 pp., 196 BW illus., 23 color plates. VG. Item #143386
ISBN: 9780691001562
Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in The Fine Arts, 1989. The written edition of six lectures given at the National Gallery of Art in 1989, which present the theory of intermediaries in art, writing, geometry, architecture, and nature. "Shares a veteran's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. ... Analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period." (back cover).
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