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Kent Bloomer : nature as ornament

Title
Kent Bloomer : nature as ornament / edited by Sunil Bald and Gary Huafan He.
Publication
  • New Haven : Yale School of Architecture, [2020]
  • New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Bloomer, Kent C., 1935-
  • Bald, Sunil
  • He, Gary Huafan
Description
215 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
A celebration of renowned sculptor and educator Kent Bloomer's work, examining the role of ornament in contemporary architecture and society. Best known for New York's Central Park luminaires (1982), the ornamentation at Rice University's Baker Hall in Houston (1997), and his work on Yale University's Bass Library entrance pavilion and Sterling Memorial Library stairwell entrance (2007), the sculptor Kent Bloomer (b. 1935) has not only influenced the discussion around ornament in contemporary architectural practice, but has inspired developments in a range of disciplines that include history, music, art, philosophy, and biology. With a retrospective look at Bloomer's work as a point of departure, scholars from a variety of different fields explore his contributions to the history of ornament as both a social and an artistic phenomenon. Through the lens of Bloomer's groundbreaking oeuvre, this volume reorients the discourse of ornament from a contentious vestige of modernity toward its active relationship to architecture, landscape, urbanism, and a sense of place.
Alternative Title
Nature as ornament
Subject
  • Bloomer, Kent C., 1935- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Bloomer, Kent C., 1935-
  • Decoration and ornament, Architectural
  • Sculpture and architecture > United States
  • Sculpture and architecture
  • United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JQD 21-85
ISBN
  • 9780300254716
  • 0300254717
OCLC
1202897246
Title
Kent Bloomer : nature as ornament / edited by Sunil Bald and Gary Huafan He.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale School of Architecture, [2020]
Distributor
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Bloomer, Kent C., 1935- Works. Selections.
Bald, Sunil, editor.
He, Gary Huafan, editor.
Research Call Number
JQD 21-85
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