Artistic style

References and further reading

	Abrams, M.H. (1953) The Mirror and the Lamp, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Still perhaps the best introduction to the history of ideas in the Romantic movement in literature.)
	Ackerman, J. (1963) ‘Style’, in J. Ackerman and R. Carpenter (eds), Art and Archeology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 174–186. (A theory of style in the visual arts by an art historian.)
	Carter R. and Simpson, R. (1989) Language, Discourse and Literature, London: Unwin Hyman. (An introduction to stylistics and discourse analysis.)
	Cooper, L. (1912) Theories of Style, New York: Macmillan. (Contains theories of literary style by many great writers, including Aristotle, Longinus and Coleridge.)
	Danto, A.C. (1981) The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, esp. ch. 7. (Application of Danto’s general philosophy of art to style and expression.)
	Foucault, M. (1979) ‘What is an Author?’, in J.V. Harari (ed.), Textual Strategies, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 141–160. (Translation of a 1969 essay by the French philosopher.)
	Gombrich, E.H. (1960) Art and Illusion, London: Phaidon, esp. ch. 11. (Fascinating discussion of the development of style in Western ‘realistic’ painting and the relation between style and expression.)
	Gombrich, E.H. (1968–79) ‘Style’, in D. Sills (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, New York: Macmillan, 18 vols, 15: 352–361. (A summary of Gombrich’s views on style.)
	Goodman, N. (1975) ‘The Status of Style’, Critical Inquiry 1: 799–811. (A theory of style by a philosopher, which complements the views developed in his Languages of Art.)
	Kennedy, G. (1994) A New History of Classical Rhetoric, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Gives a good account of the treatment of style in Ancient Greece and Rome.)
	Lang, B. (1987) The Concept of Style, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (First edition 1979. Contains a number of important essays on style by philosophers, art historians and others, including several mentioned in this entry: Leonard Meyer, ‘Toward a Theory of Style’, Richard Wollheim, ‘Pictorial Style: Two Views’, and Monroe Beardsley, ‘Verbal Style and Illocutionary Action’.)
	Meyer, L. (1989) Style and Music, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (An expansion of the essay in Lang (1987) by a music theorist.)
	Minor, V.H. (1994) Art History’s History, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Useful if brief introduction to the major figures in Western art history.)
	Panofsky, E. (1955) Meaning in the Visual Arts, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 26–54. (First published in 1939, this essay explains Panofsky’s principles of art historical interpretation. Page reference marks ‘Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art’.)
	Podro, M. (1982) The Critical Historians of Art, London: Yale University Press. (The theories of post-Hegelian art historians.)
	Robinson, J.M. (1985) ‘Style and Personality in the Literary Work’, Philosophical Review, 94: 227–247. (Development of some of the ideas in §5.)
	Schapiro, M. (1994) Selected Papers, Volume 4: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society, New York: George Braziller, 51–102. (A seminal essay on style, originally published in 1962; contains a useful bibliography.)
	Van Eck, C., McAllister, J. and Van de Vall, R. (1995) The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A collection of essays on style.)
	Wölfflin, H. (1950) Principles of Art History, New York: Dover. (First published in 1915, this book explains the five principles which are said to distinguish Renaissance from Baroque style.)