Ornament: A Social History Since 1450 by Maurice Howard, Michael Snodin

Ornament: A Social History Since 1450

Maurice Howard, Michael Snodin

232 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction art sociology informative slow-paced
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Ornament is all around us--on our clothes, furniture, buildings, on a war memorial in a town square, on a dinner plate. Its purpose can be purely decorative--a means of giving an object distinction and refinement--or it can have a practical use--m...

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