Continuity and Breakdown. A Grammar of Tradition In Contemporary Culture

A strategic study to see how what’s been created determines the creation: Bach is in Bártok as Van der Weyden in Bill Viola or Palladio in Le Corbusier

An essay that faces the irrevocable concept of tradition, proposes and reasons a definition, and examines its mechanisms and interdisciplinary relationships with culture and the arts. A laboratory in which the relationship between tradition and the entelechy of originality is experienced: the inevitable imitation, the canon and parody, genius and influence, protocols of innovation and the machinery of trends.

Tradition in Humanities. A very short introduction
 

​​Enrique Vila-Matas - “A small huge book.”