![]() Oleg Grabar takes up anew the challenge of using ornament to broach artistic questions." -Margaret Olin, The Art Bulletin, " book, written with a kindly wit and a keen intelligence, is beautifully illustrated, and itself illustrates the role of ornament in the world."- Bostonia, An admirable treatise. If The Formation of Islamic Art was the most provocative and generously conceived book on its subject in the '70s, The Mediation of Ornament, with its expanded frame of reference and sense of personal urgency, may well assume that status for the '90s." -Holland Cotter, Art in America, "It is impossible to approach this profoundly stimulating book by Oleg Grabar without reflecting on the strange twists of fate that the discourse of ornament has undergone in the last two centuries. ![]() Oleg Grabar takes up anew the challenge of using ornament to broach artistic questions."- Margaret Olin, The Art Bulletin, " book, written with a kindly wit and a keen intelligence, is beautifully illustrated, and itself illustrates the role of ornament in the world." - Bostonia, "This is writing that not only rewards but requires rereading. ![]() "It is impossible to approach this profoundly stimulating book by Oleg Grabar without reflecting on the strange twists of fate that the discourse of ornament has undergone in the last two centuries.
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