Style
The Stylistics is one of the foundations of art history and art criticism . It deals with the special characteristics of styles of art , handicrafts and other cultural forms of life based on the "stylistic devices" used.
Significance within the subject of art history
The concept of stylistics is mainly used in relation to the fine arts , i.e. to architecture , sculpture , painting and graphics, as well as applied arts . The study of style has been the classical method of scientific analysis of works of art since the Renaissance . This classical method has only recently been supplemented by alternative approaches such as iconography or iconology or reception aesthetics .
Concept of the style epoch
The term “epoch”, which is central to stylistics, or more precisely the “stylistic epoch” denotes a period of several years or decades (in the archaeological stylistics of early history also centuries) in which cultural goods of the same kind are related in a multitude of characteristics "Stylistically" resemble .
Other meanings
Outside of art history and thus as a method for analyzing stylistic epochs, the term stylistics is also used in the sense of a theory of good style in very different contexts, for example in the area of style guides for "good writing" or as "stylistics for carpenters".
See also
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- ↑ See Hans Belting : The End of Art History? , Munich 1983.
- ↑ See J. Brunschwiler: Stilkunde für Schreiner . Hanover 1986.