Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature - by Wylie Sypher - Vintage First Edition

Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature: Transformations in Style, in Art and Literature from the 18th to the 20th Century
by Wylie Sypher
published by Random House, New York, 1960

First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover in very good condition,
chipping, scuffing and edge wear to jacket, including a few short tears to jacket edges.
Tanning on top block of pages. Interior is clean and unmarked, a bit toned.
Black and white illustrations within text.

In Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature, Mr. Sypher extends to later ages, including our own times, the fruitful analyses of the formal parallels between literature and the plastic arts which he first undertook in his influential Four Stages of Renaissance Style. This work has been recognized as a classic in its field and, according to Arts Magazine, belongs alongside Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History and J. Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages.