Author: Gurstein, Rochelle
Title: Written in Water the Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
Description: New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 2024. Hardcover. Boards with blue design, title on cover and printed on spine. (1) 2-492 pp. chiefly text. More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to establish a solid foundation for the timeless classic in the history of taste. To her surprise, that history instead revealed repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries of long-forgotten artists, and radical shifts in the canon. These revelations went so completely against common knowledge that their truth was hard to accept.Where does the idea of the timeless classic come from? And how has it become so fiercely contested? By recovering disputes about works of art from the eighteenth century to the close of the twentieth, Written in Water takes us into unfamiliar aesthetic and moral terrain, providing a richly imagined historical alternative to positions advanced by rival parties in our culture wars. VG, minor signs of wear at corners of hardcover .

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