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The Nature of Ornament: A Summary Treatise - Reading Version / Phillips, Tom., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40112-42081

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Scope and Contents

Phillips presented this paper to the Architecture forum in the Reynolds Room of the Royal Academy of Arts on October 28, 2002. This reading version is formated into nine parts and 157 statements describing ornament which Phillips states "...is high art hidden everywhere. Ornament is the stylistic signature of time and place and peoples." Statement 109: The use of calligraphy in ornament is as old as writing itself and the graffiti artists of the late 20th century in New York brought calligraphic expression to a new height comparable with the best of Islamic letter-based art or mediaeval illumination." 110: Ornament, however, including the calligraphic type, has its own mode of communication. In that it has meaning it bypasses the customary modes of literal or metaphorical and inhabits Dante's final category of signification, the anagological, wher form embodies truth directly, making as it were a spiritual equation." Stored in box with Phillips notebooks, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2002

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (14 stapled pages (laser printed)) ; 30 x 22 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

alcove Phillips box

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Tom Phillips, 2002.

General

Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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