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  The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West by Karl Morrison
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Make/Author/Artist: Karl F Morrison
Edition/ Material: 1982
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: MIMETIC

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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 the rules of style. In this study, Karl F Morrison explores the far reaching consequences of this distinction.

From antiquity on, the aesthetic strategy of mimesis underlay entire systems of thought that encompassed cosmology, epistemology, and ethics. It continued in a richly varied tradition through Platonism, Augustinianism, medieval Christianity and classical Idealism to the thinking of nineteenth-century figures as disparate as Pope Pius IX and Wilhelm Dilthey. Professor Morrison narrates the history of the strategy of mimesis, analyzing it not as a key to artistic innovation so much as a major component in programs for social change in the West.

CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, used lightly. VG+. Clean. 1982, 440 pages, Princeton University Press.

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