Section: November 2: Universalizing Ornament in the Nineteenth Century: Owen Jones and the Grammar of Ornament | Topics in Material Culture - bmc.HART.B640.001.F26

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- Select activity Frankel, Nicholas. “The Ecstasy of Decoration: The Grammar of Ornament as Embodied Experience.” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide 2 (2003): 1–32.
  
  Frankel, Nicholas. “The Ecstasy of Decoration: The Grammar of Ornament as Embodied Experience.” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide 2 (2003): 1–32. File
  
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  **Focus reading on pp. 22-30**
- Select activity Lenssen, Anneka “Travels of the Carpet Myth: Retracing Owen Jones, Ibn Khaldun, and Gottfried Semper” in Thresholds 34 (2007): 70-73
  
  Lenssen, Anneka “Travels of the Carpet Myth: Retracing Owen Jones, Ibn Khaldun, and Gottfried Semper” in Thresholds 34 (2007): 70-73 File
  
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- Select activity Labrusse, Rémi “Grammars of Ornament. Dematerialization and Embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee,” in Histories of Ornament, 320-334.
  
  Labrusse, Rémi “Grammars of Ornament. Dematerialization and Embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee,” in Histories of Ornament, 320-334. File
  
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- Select activity Waghorne, Joanne Punzo. The Raja’s Magic Clothes: Re-visioning Kingship and Divinity in England’s India (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), Introduction and Conclusion.
  
  Waghorne, Joanne Punzo. The Raja’s Magic Clothes: Re-visioning Kingship and Divinity in England’s India (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), Introduction and Conclusion. File
  
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  Joanna Waghorne reading is the introduction to her book that focuses on the small, southern Indian court of Pudukkottai. Please focus particularly on the Conclusion, where Waghorne lays out an "Ontology of Ornament."
- Select activity THIS READING IS NO LONGER REQUIRED: Papapetros, Spyros, “World Ornament: The legacy of Gottfried Semper's 1856 lecture on Adornment” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 57/58 (Spring/Autumn 2010), pp. 309-329
  
  THIS READING IS NO LONGER REQUIRED: Papapetros, Spyros, “World Ornament: The legacy of Gottfried Semper's 1856 lecture on Adornment” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 57/58 (Spring/Autumn 2010), pp. 309-329 File
  
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- Select activity FURTHER READING: Houghteling_The Tree of Life and the World of Wonder
  
  FURTHER READING: Houghteling_The Tree of Life and the World of Wonder File PDF
  
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  I am including this reading for this week in case it is of interest - although it deals with the 17th and 18th centuries, I wondered if it might be helpful to discuss the process of writing a paper that engages with what can seem like purely ornamental designs.
  
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