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Ornament : a social history since 1450 / [Michael Snodin & Maurice Howard].

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-152853

Description

232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Decoration and ornament

Originator

Snodin, Michael.
Howard, Maurice.

Contents

Ornament and the printed image -- Ornament and building -- Ornament and the human figure -- Ornament and the domestic interior -- Ornament in public and popular culture -- Looking out : the uses and meanings of exoticism in Western ornament.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press

Description

232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-226) and index.
Rodris Roth Library.

ISBN

0300064551 (cloth)

Call Number

Roth/Coll. NK1442.S62 1996

Places

Europe.

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