The Clockwork Muse
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"In many poetic traditions, there has been a historical movement of similes and metaphors away from consistency toward remoteness and incongruity. Similar historical trends can be discovered in the other arts. Once European painters got the hang of how to render a two-dimensional representation of reality, they set about figuring out how to paint ever more distorted representations of reality. In fact, old-fashioned painters have always done representations that look fine to nonpainters ..." --The Clockwork Muse, Colin Martindale, 1990 |
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The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change (1990) is a book by Colin Martindale. It argued that all artistic development over time in written, visual and musical works was the result of a search for novelty.
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