Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design

by Amy Goldin, Elissa Auther, Jenelle Porter

Less Is a Bore is a multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design. Borrowing its ethos from Robert Venturi's retort to Mies van der Rohe's modernist edict "less is more," this exhibition includes art works that privilege decoration, patterning, and maximalism over modernism's reductive "ornament as crime" philosophy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997253843
• ISBN13: 9780997253849
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Art
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"