The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West (Princeton Legacy Library, 777) - Hardcover

Morrison, Karl F.

9780691053509: The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West (Princeton Legacy Library, 777)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691053502 ISBN 13: 9780691053509

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1982

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.

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About the Author:

Morrison is on the faculty of the history department at Rutgers University and currently in residence at the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

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