Word: ornamentalism
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Preserved by Ice. These included gold. The Scythians were rich. They wrung tribute from every caravan that crossed the steppes, and they carried their gold not as raw bullion but as flamboyant ornament. Other materials went to dust?except for some ornaments of wood or cloth, such as the elegant swan made of felt stuffed with reindeer hair (see color opposite) that was discovered, preserved by ice for almost 2½ millennia, in a tomb in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Yet the gold survived. Almost all the major examples of Scythian gold have remained in the U.S.S.R...
...better introduction to Byzantine influence in Italy-not only the works made in Constantinople and then imported or looted, but also the ones made by the artists of the Adriatic coast. All the canons of Byzantine style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form, the encyclopedic richness of ornament and material (gold, silver, precious stones, enamel), the sublime monotony of pose and gesture by which the human figure was depicted only as the dwelling place of a thought or a doctrine, the flat mantle of peacock colors, the linear arabesques. An ivory carving like the 10th century Apostles John...
...production's chief ornament, however, is the Lucentio Bill of Gilbert Price, fresh from his astounding performances as the leading character in Mahagonny at Yale and his triumph in the principal role of Bernstein's Mass at Berkeley. Price is, not to beat about the bush, the best baritone in the business. Here he is charming as he sings "Bianca" with a single pink posy in his palms, and duets with his dazzling damozel (Norma Donaldson) in "Always True to You in My Fashion." In addition, this show allows him to exhibit a lot of mercurial movement and supple dancing...
...compressed and flattened into a long triangular wedge of gold, or the magnificent Tairona pectoral with its three fierce birds' heads stabbing outward, the forms are so energetic in their stylization and so terse in their modeling that, even on this tiny scale, the pieces cease to be ornament and become sculpture...
...come to the town and taken up the carpenter's trade and produced all this strange variety of ornament: the rising (or setting?) sun shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind...