Late Style and Its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music

by Sam Smiles

"Late style" is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the artist's oeuvre, "late" being the antonym of "early" or the third term in the triad "early-middle-late." However, almost from its inception, the idea of late...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198704623
• ISBN13: 9780198704621
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"