Section: Readings for September 7 (Labor Day) and September 14: Ornament: Histories and Historiographies | Topics in Material Culture - bmc.HART.B640.001.F26

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- Select activity Necipoğlu, Gülru and Alina Payne, eds. “Introduction,” in Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 1-6.
  
  Necipoğlu, Gülru and Alina Payne, eds. “Introduction,” in Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 1-6. File
  
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- Select activity Grabar, Oleg, “Introduction” + “A Theory of Intermediaries in Art,” The Mediation of Ornament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) 3-20; 24-26; 44-46.
  
  Grabar, Oleg, “Introduction” + “A Theory of Intermediaries in Art,” The Mediation of Ornament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) 3-20; 24-26; 44-46. File
  
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- Select activity Dehejia, Vidya, “The Idealized Body and Ornament,” The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 24-25; 34-40; 46-49; 71-74
  
  Dehejia, Vidya, “The Idealized Body and Ornament,” The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 24-25; 34-40; 46-49; 71-74 File
  
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- Select activity Alicia Walker, “‘The Art that Does Not Think’: Byzantine ‘Decorative Arts’ – History and Limits of a Concept,” in Colum Hourihane, ed., From minor to major: the minor arts in Medieval art history (Princeton, NJ, 2012), read 169-175).
  
  Alicia Walker, “‘The Art that Does Not Think’: Byzantine ‘Decorative Arts’ – History and Limits of a Concept,” in Colum Hourihane, ed., From minor to major: the minor arts in Medieval art history (Princeton, NJ, 2012), read 169-175). File PDF
  
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- Select activity Auther, "The Decorative, Abstraction, and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in the Art Criticism of Clement Greenberg" (2004)
  
  Auther, "The Decorative, Abstraction, and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in the Art Criticism of Clement Greenberg" (2004) File
  
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- Select activity Potts, Tracey. Neither Use nor Ornament: A Cultural Biography of Clutter (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024). Introduction.
  
  Potts, Tracey. Neither Use nor Ornament: A Cultural Biography of Clutter (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024). Introduction. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Rosalind Krauss_Terminal Iron Works
  
  Rosalind Krauss_Terminal Iron Works File PDF
  
  Look in particular on p. 161 for a reference to our course's topic
  
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