Main entry:

Sypher, Wylie.

Title & Author:

Rococo to Cubism in art and literature.

Publication:

New York, Random House [1960]

Description:

353 pages illustrations 24 cm

Series:

A Vintage Book V229

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1. Rococo: the idea of an order: Pope and the rococo situation -- Fictions of the Enlightenment -- Rococo as a style -- Arabesque in verse -- Genre pittoresque -- pt. 2. Picturesque, romanticism, symbolism: The loss of a style -- Visual picturesque: the pleasures of imagination -- Psychological picturesque: association and reverie -- Luminism -- Correspondences -- pt. 3. Neo-mannerism: Style, stylization, and blockage -- The neo-mannerist condition -- The impressionist experiment -- Nazarenes, Lyonnais, and pre-Raphaelites -- The Nabis and art nouveau -- pt. 4. The Cubist perspective: The new world of relationships: camera and cinema -- Cubist drama -- The Cubist novel -- World without objects: neo-plasticism and poetry.

Summary:

" I have assumed tha a genuine style is an expression of a prevailing, dominant, or authentically contemporary view of the world by those artists who have most successfully intuited the quality of human experience peculiar to their day and who are able to phrase this experience in forms deeply congenial to the thought, science and technology which are part of that experience. This is an expression not easily achieved. A style is born slowly, after many efforts, false starts, and mistakes. All these difficulties, all these deviations are inevitable, for any age comes only indirectly to a consciousness of what it believes about the world in which it exists: and there is always the inclination to phrase comtemporary experience in the idiom of past experience - which, of course, is what gives continuity to the History of the arts" - Publisher,

Resources:
Table of contents

Subject:

Arts History.
Rococo literature.
Literature, Modern History and criticism.
Art History.
Art Histoire.
Littérature 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Arts Histoire.
Littérature rococo.
art history.
Art
Arts
Literature, Modern

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

A Vintage Book V229.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252852
Call No.: BIB 182567
Status: Available