The Life of a Style: The New Politics of Finance in Britain and Japan

by Jonathan Gilmore

What does it mean to say that a form of art is exhausted, that an artist has brought his or her work as far as it can go, that modernism began with Edouard Manet, or that cubism reached a natural ending in 1914 (even if members of that movement continued to paint in a cubist style)? Contemporary theories of art history tend to treat such issues as matters of narrative form, of the manner in which history is represented - with beginnings, turning points...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801436958
• ISBN13: 9780801436956
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"