Abstract
The nocturnal sky shows glimmering nebulas among the splendid miracle of stars—either old extinct systems scattered throughout the universe, or cosmic dust taking shape around a nucleus, or a condition in between destruction and regeneration. They are a suitable analogy for similar events on the horizon of art history. They are signs of a world of art passing into the formless, while suggesting at the same time a new formation in the making. This phenomenon of artistic decline and the mysterious phoenixlike birth of new artistic life arising from the process of its destruction is all the more significant for us, because we are probably in the midst of a similar crisis. Gottfried Semper Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts, or Practical Aesthetics (1860)
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