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Fall/Winter 2015 Issue
Personal Encounters with Decorative Objects
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A 10th-Anniversary Collection
Editorial by John Fleming
THIS ISSUE OF ORNAMENTUM follows the technique of mosaic construction through the material history of the decorative arts in the production of objects....
The Tale of the Three-Bladed Propeller
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Article by Paul Balcaen
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HERE IS AN INSIGNIFICANT-LOOKING grey wooden propeller on a hangar wall at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg.
It came off...
Documentary Calligraphy at Kings Landing
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Article by Darrell Butler
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CCORDING TO MR. WILLIAM GANONG, the collection donor, this is one of two pieces of calligraphy by George Bragg (1783-1859) in the Mary...
Symbol of the Realm
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Article by Michael Prokopow
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IVEN THAT EVERY HUMAN-MADE OBJECT is a text born of context, the challenge of getting at the meaning of a thing necessarily becomes...
Carving the City
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Article by Wayne Reeves
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HILE THREE-DIMENSIONAL depictions of buildings and towns date back to antiquity, terrain models (or raised-relief maps) became popular only from the 1890s...
Georgia Baths: A Steamy History
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Article by David R. Johnston
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TEAM BATHS WERE ONCE A COMMON PART OF LIFE in Edmonton, popular with European immigrant groups and working men. Edmonton Turkish...
Crushing Beauty
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Article by Elizabeth Semmelhack
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HIS CLOG PRICKS the imagination. Was it an implement of medieval torture or was it perhaps a weapon? Its form does, in fact,...
Holding Meaning
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Article by Michael Prokopow
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HILE THERE ARE times when the production of objects results in unprecedented achievements in form and materiality, more often than not most...