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ornamental
(redirected from ornamentalism)

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This beautifully produced book--containing a substantial number of Reeh's own photographs of urban ornamentalism, visually pleasant but insufficiently motivated--clearly reflects Kracauer's growing cult status: His texts have become authorization for others' writerly creativity--in this case applied to "modern urban culture," no matter how eclectic or how tenuous the connection.
See, for example, David Cannadine's recent Ornamentalism (Oxford 2001), which disagrees with Said, but cannot but echo him).
Ornamentalism is, in one sense, an attempt at polemic.
 
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