UID:
almafu_9959232076202883
Format:
1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages, 8 pages of plates) :
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-315-59911-2
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1-317-08500-0
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1-317-08499-3
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1-4724-0999-X
Series Statement:
Architecture
Content:
Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world's most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, it argues that they are in fact both intrinsically ornamental (working within a classic architectonic framework), as well as innately ordered (within a highly ritualized, performative structure). Rather than disharmonic, destructive forms, rather than ones solely working within the dynamics of the market, these insurgent images are
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; I Ornament; 1 Ornament; 2 Consensual Ornamentation; 3 Agonistic Ornamentation; II Order; 4 Order; 5 Inversion, Subversion, Perversion; 6 Play, Risk and the Picaresque; Conclusion; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-43244-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4724-0998-1
Language:
English
