The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West

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Ancient writers distinguished between art and style, arguing that free imitation was a critical strategy that freed artists from servile copying of objects and blind submission to rules of style. In this study Karl F. Morrison explores the far-reaching consequences of this distinction Originally pub...

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Main Author: Morrison, Karl F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Intellectual life.
Imitation.
Civilization, Western.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > World.
Imitation (Psychologie)
Civilisation occidentale.
Imitative Behavior
Europe.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle.
Europe > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Ancient writers distinguished between art and style, arguing that free imitation was a critical strategy that freed artists from servile copying of objects and blind submission to rules of style. In this study Karl F. Morrison explores the far-reaching consequences of this distinction Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important b.
Item Description:Cover; Contents.
Physical Description:1 online resource (440 pages).
ISBN:9781400856190

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