title: Studies of Ornament: Main Trends and Prospects
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metadata.value: Palaguta, Ilia V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-12-17T12:39:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-12-17T12:39:00Z
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metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Palaguta, Ilia. “Studies of Ornament: Main Trends and Prospects”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 10, no. 4 (2020): 571–585.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2020.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/21720
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metadata.value: The analysis of the ornament is the key issue in the studies of the applied decorative art. Nevertheless, the principal points pertaining to the nature of ornament, its expressivity, semantics,
  compositional principles and cultural value, have only been covered intermittently. This is
  primarily due to the disengagement of the various academic fields involved in the studies of
  ornament: art history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, archeology, etc. It seems important
  to synthesize the methods and approaches as well as set up the basis for developing the general
  principles for the studies of ornament, that would take into account all its various aspects.
  The definition of ornament through its decorative function does not encompass its essential
  features: rhythm, meter, and symmetry. Ornament can be considered as a strategy of visualizing rhythm and can be regarded as a specific art form. Apart from the formal trend, based on
  systematization of ornaments, the approaches to ornament as the basis of ethnocultural reconstructions play a prominent part. Studies concerning the semantics of ornament offer a whole
  range of opinions, but the widespread notion that ornament is a set of signs and symbols calls
  for a critical reappraisal. At the same time, ornament plays an important part in the process of
  intercultural and intracultural communications on the level of signal and index, being a special kind of “art-rhythm”. The interdisciplinary approach opens a much broader range of ideas
  concerning the options for studying ornaments and offers solutions for subsequent research.
  One of the most promising possibilities is the comprehensive and cross-cultural analysis of ornament as the element of a communication system, based on the search for the links between
  the development of the ornamental traditions and styles as well as the developments in the
  other spheres of human culture.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by RFBR, Project no. 19-112-50079.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ornament
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theory of ornament
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of ornament
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: definition of ornament
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ornament in archeology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ornament in ethnography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: symmetry in ornament
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Studies of Ornament: Main Trends and Prospects
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metadata.value: Article
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