Journal of Design History article by John Kresten Jespersen just published

The Journal of Design, 21, #1 has just published my article on "Originality and Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament of 1856" which I hope will provoke discussion about ornament and the Victorian aesthetics of conventionalization on this blog. The paper issue is due out at the end of May, 2008. I make the case in this article that the Grammar is all about the creation of original ornament, even though its typical use in architectural offices from the mid-nineteenth century was as a copy source book.