[lbo-talk] Terry Eagleton and the Gospels

[Joanna]

Michael Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:51:28 Joanna wrote:
>   
>> There's a little book by some named something like Willy Sypher called
>> something like "The Four Stages of Art" 
>>     
>
> Wylie Sypher, Four Stages of Renaissance Style, 1950-something. Not a 
> bad book IIRC though I don't remember him generalizing it into a universal. 
>   
You're right. He didn't generalize, but some of it seems to be 
extensible....

At any rate: art deco is the gothic of the modern; then there's modern; 
then there's the mannerist "post modern", we haven't gotten to baroque yet.

Joanna