Take the 2-minute tour ×  What do “parergonal” and "parergon"
mean in the following sentence? Can anybody suggest some
synonym?  Thus, the figurative signification of structure does
not escape but instead confirms the parergonal and supplemental
status of ornament. If structure in its metaphorical sense is
the fully conceived structured idea of the building, then
ornament becomes the parergon that reifies the underlying
essential idea, the recessive unseen structure. (Source:
"Structure/ornament and the Modern Figuration of Architecture"
by Anne-Marie Sankovitch)  I checked them out in American
Heritage Online English dictionary and Wikipedia, but I wasn't
able to figure it out, and I'm struggling because I'm actually
not able to understand what Anne-Marie Sankovitch said.
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Marthaª, MετάEd, TimLymington, tchrist, Mahnax Aug 27 '12 at
17:18   Did you try "define: parergon" using Google, a method
that was suggested to you in the answer to a different q