On the Style Site: Art, Sociality, and Media Culture

by Ina Blom

This book takes its cue from a simple observation. During the last 30 years or so, the term style has all but disappeared from art critical or art historical terminology. For new art history it was an increasingly problematic term, associated with the taxonomist and historicist concerns of "old" art history, not to speak of its fixation on the figure of the great artist. For contemporary art criticism the term seemed simply irrelevant: Faced with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933128305
• ISBN13: 9781933128306
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"