The Life of a Style
Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art
by Jonathan Gilmore
"By exploring such topics as the discovery of perspective, neoclassical models of composition, the end of cubism, and the evolution of Jackson Pollock's paintings, Gilmore proposes a way of understanding how artistic styles develop in an internal or organic fashion and how their development relates to their social and biographical contexts.
In Gilmore's view, there are intrinsic limits to a style, limits that are present from its beginning but that emerge only as, or after, it reaches the end of its history."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art
November 2000, Cornell University Press
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0801436958 9780801436956
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"Later historians of art may not have adopted the quasi-Aristotelian poetics of plot so puzzlingly alluded to by Winckelmann, yet their narratives of art history are still shaped by the devices of beginnings and endings."
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