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Journal Article
Mere Style?
2018
Overview
According to Muthesius, modern architecture had to break free from the chains of style, replacing a stifled Stilarchitektur with a ‘living building art’ (1902: 67). If modernist architects drove style out of architectural practice, historians followed suit, chasing it out of the history books. Caroline van Eck — a pioneer of style studies with books such as The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts (1995) — studies the dynamics of stylistic transformation in Napoleonic France in the essay ‘The Style Empire and its Pedigree: Piranesi, Pompeii, and Alexandria’. In his entry on style in the International Encyclopaedia of Social Science from 1968, Ernst Gombrich warned against the ‘physiognomic fallacy’ — that is, the assumption that one can judge the cultural level of a period or a people by looking at the style of their art and architecture.
Publisher
Open Library Of Humanities,Ubiquity Press Ltd,European Architectural History Network,Open Library of Humanities
