Ornamental
- due April 2013
Argument
ornamentation the product of workshop hands - ornatus, cosmetics and cosmos - gravitational organisation of decorative space - return of the picture plane - Pinturicchio, descending into the domus aurea
‘I make additions, but not corrections... My book is ever me: except that, to avoid the purchaser’s going away quite empty-handed when a new edition is brought out, I allow myself, since it is merely a piece of badly-joined marquetry, to tack on some additional ornaments.’ Montaigne c.1089
