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Late Style and its Discontents - Essays in art, literature, and music (Hardcover)
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Late Style and its Discontents - Essays in art, literature, and music (Hardcover)
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'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise
the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as
they enter their last phase of production-often, but not only, in
old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a
chronological division in the artist's oeuvre, 'late' being the
antonym of 'early' or the third term in the triad
'early-middle-late'. However, almost from its inception, the idea
of late style or late work has been freighted with aesthetic
associations and expectations that promote it as a special episode
in the artist's creative life. Late style is often characterised as
the imaginative response made by exceptional talents to the
imminence of their death. In their confrontation with death
creative artists, critics claim, produce work that is by turns a
determination to continue while strength remains, a summation of
their life's work and a radical vision of the essence of their
craft. And because this creative phenomenon is understood as
primarily an existential response to a common fate, so late style
is understood as something that transcends the particularities of
place, time and medium. Critics seeking to understand late work
regularly invoke the examples of Titian, Goethe, and Beethoven as
exemplars of what constitutes late work, proposing that something
unites the late style of authors, composers, and creative artists
who otherwise would not be bracketed together and that lateness per
se is a special order of creative work. The essays in this
collection resist this position. Ranging across literature, the
visual arts, music, and scientific work, the material assembled
here looks closely at the material, biographical and other contexts
in which the work was produced and seeks both to question the
assumptions surrounding late style and to prompt a more critical
understanding of the last works of writers, artists and composers.
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