"The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects and shapes the history of art."
— History of art

January 1, 1970

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George Kubler summarizing the view of Meyer Schapiro (with whom he disagrees), quoted by Alpers in Lang, Berel (ed.), The Concept of Style, 1987, Ithaca: Cornell University Press,