Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament - Rilegato

Riegl, Alois

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0691040877 ISBN 13: 9780691040875

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Written at the height of the arts and crafts movement in fin-de-siecle Vienna, Alois Riegl's Stilfragen represented a turning point in defining art and understanding the sources of its inspiration. Demonstrating an uninterrupted continuity in the history of ornament from the ancient Egyptian through the Islamic period, Riegl argued that the creative urge manifests itself in both "great art" and the most humble artifact, and that change is an inherent part of style. This new translation, which renders Riegl's seminal work in contemporary, readable prose, allows for a fresh reexamination of his thought in light of current revisionist debate.
His discovery of infinite variation in the restatement of several decorative motifs - the palmette, rosette, tendril - led Riegl to believe that art is completely independent from exterior conditions and is beyond individual volition. This thinking laid the groundwork for his famous concept of Kunstwollen, or artistic intention.

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"A fine translation of [Riegl's] groundbreaking book of 1893 on the history of ornament, Problems of Stylehas been made available, equipped with a generous apparatus of notes enabling us to evaluate his theories in light of other scholarship on the subject."--The Times Literary Supplement

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	Translator's Note
	Preface
	Annotator's Introduction and Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	The Geometric Style	14
Ch. 2	The Heraldic Style	41
Ch. 3	The Introduction of Vegetal Ornament and the Development of the Ornamental Tendril	48
A	Near Eastern	53
1	Egyptian. The Development of Vegetal Ornament	53
2	Mesopotamian	83
3	Phoenician	96
4	Persian	102
B	Vegetal Ornament in Greek Art	104
1	Mycenaean. The Origin of the Tendril	106
2	The Dipylon Style	137
3	Melian	140
4	Rhodian	145
5	Early Boeotian and Early Attic	156
6	The Interlacing Tendril	161
7	The Development of the Tendril Frieze	172
8	The Further Development of the All-over Tendril Pattern	178
9	The Emergence of Acanthus Ornament	187
10	Hellenistic and Roman Tendril Ornament	207
a	Two-Dimensional Palmette-Tendrils	214
b	The Acanthus Tendril	220
Ch. 4	The Arabesque: Introduction	229
A	Tendril Ornament in Byzantine Art	240
B	Early Islamic Tendril Ornament	266
	Annotations	307
	Glossary of Terms and Concepts Used by Riegl	397

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0691040877
• ISBN 13: 9780691040875
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 444