Section: Readings September 28 and October 5: Orientalism// Ornamentalism Parts I and II | Topics in Material Culture - bmc.HART.B640.001.F26

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- Select activity Reading Response: On Use and Uselessness - due Sunday, Oct. 4, 11:59 PM
  
  Reading Response: On Use and Uselessness - due Sunday, Oct. 4, 11:59 PM Assignment
  
  Due: Sunday, October 4, 2026, 11:59 PM
  
  Ann Anlin Cheng writes in Ornamentalism that "uselessness...opens up the 'gap' in the 'symbolic universe of utilitarianism'" (103). In this response, please consider the following questions (in no more than 3 paragraphs):
  
  What are some instances that we have seen when ornament can be "useful"?
  
  Drawing upon the readings from this week, please consider to what ends the "uselessness" of ornament be put, instrumentalized, or used to open up "a gap"?
  
  How might this course on Ornament be useful to your own studies? What ideas have you started to think about for your final paper?
- Select activity Edward Said, Orientalism, 1978
  
  Edward Said, Orientalism, 1978 File PDF
  
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- Select activity Hay, Jonathan, “The Passage of the Other: Elements for a Redefinition of Ornament” Ornament: From Global to Local (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 62-69.
  
  Hay, Jonathan, “The Passage of the Other: Elements for a Redefinition of Ornament” Ornament: From Global to Local (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 62-69. File
  
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- Select activity Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism. Introduction Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
  
  Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism. Introduction Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 File PDF
  
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- Select activity Anne Anlin Cheng_Ornamentalism_Blue Willow (Chapter 3)
  
  Anne Anlin Cheng_Ornamentalism_Blue Willow (Chapter 3) File PDF
  
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- Select activity Cindy Kang "Bonnard and the Folding Screen" Nineteenth Century Studies 2021
  
  Cindy Kang "Bonnard and the Folding Screen" Nineteenth Century Studies 2021 File PDF
  
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