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Great! Im looking forward to it.

This historical survey offers interesting keys to understand the current debates around images, style, intellectual property and automation, for example as they took shape in the #ghiblification of everything by ChatGPT a few months ago.

intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

On the other hand, the paper addresses a theoretical blind spot of Art History which has long focused on style as a normative category to be defined and refined and left under theorized the pragmatics of style, i.e. what people do with the concept to control and regulate the social life of artworks.

I argue that this pragmatic history of style sheds light on two blind spots. On the one hand, an ethnographic blind spot was created by the illustrators themselves in their ‘theoretical turn’, leaving style to mere commercialism and framing it as the antithesis of artistry.

It analyzes the role of #style at three moments in history, the emergence of copyright laws, the Great Depression, and the rise of generative AI to show how the visible relation between an artist and their work has constantly been debated, reformed and morphed in various contexts.

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Oh this is exciting, thanks for sharing!

My brilliant Montreal colleague Maïa Faddoul is also featured in the series!

thephilanthropist.ca/2025/08/illu...

Thank you Florian!