“装饰的起源”在二十一世纪的今天无疑是个背时的话题,但“空白恐惧”(horror vacui)这一概念自二十世纪以来便成了西方视觉艺术领域的一个时髦术语。不过,西方设计界普遍将这一概念归属为意大利的文艺批评家与英国文学的专门家马里奥·普拉兹(Mario Praz,1896~1982)的创造,说是他在一九六八年便用这 “The Origin of Decoration” is undoubtedly a topic of the past in the 21st century, but the concept of “horror vacui” has become fashionable in the field of Western visual arts since the 20th century the term. However, the Western design community generally attributes this notion to the creation of Mario Praz (1896-1982), a literary critic of Italy and a specialist in British literature, who said that in 1968, Use this