%0 Journal Article
%T Ornament and object¡ªornament as object. Alina Payne, From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernity, Yale University Press, 2012
%A Spyros Papapetros
%J Journal of Art Historiography
%D 2012
%I 
%X What would be the relationship between the rich historiography of ornament in the late nineteenth century and ornament¡¯s ostensible eclipse from early twentieth-century building practice? Alina Payne¡¯s From Ornament to Object retraces the gradual shift in interest from the endless stylistic iterations of architectural ornamentation in fin-de-si¨¦cle culture to the unornamented artifacts of architectural modernism and argues that such plain yet highly sculptural implements carry over architecture¡¯s rhetorical function previously allotted to ornamentation. While Payne¡¯s ¡°genealogy¡± is based on a carefully crafted polarity, this review-essay underscores the implicit analogies and correspondences between ornament and object and demonstrates how Payne¡¯s intricate historical design corroborates that ornament is an object, a highly privileged but also an enigmatic one, whose loss and periodic recovery replicate the negative dialectics between art historiography and design practice.
%K Ornament historiography
%K object historiography
%K modern architecture
%K Semper
%K Warburg
%K Le Corbusier
%U http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/papapetros-review.pdf