The Life of a Style
Subtitle: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801436956
Subjects: Aesthetics; Theory of art; History - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Study & Teaching; History; Philosophy
First sentence: 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.
Description: "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.