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Title: Kent Bloomer
Condition: New
Subtitle: Nature as Ornament
Author: Sunil Bald
Contributor: Stacey Sloboda (Contributions by), Willie Ruff (Contributions by), Richard Prum (Contributions by), Michael Young (Contributions by), Turner Brooks (Contributions by), Edward Casey (Contributions by), Douglas Cooper (Contributions by), Gary Huafan He (Edited by), Guru Dev Kaur Khalsa (Contributions by), Sunil Bald (Edited by), Thomas Beeby (Contributions by), Kent Bloomer (Contributions by), Mari Hvattum (Contributions by), Emer O'Daly (Contributions by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0300254717
EAN: 9780300254716
ISBN: 9780300254716
Publisher: Yale University Press
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 10/27/2020
Description: 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.

Distributed for the Yale School of Architecture
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 165mm
Release Year: 2020

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