The Importance of the Winter Phase in Art

Spangler says that when a culture goes from its culture phase into its winter, it's what he calls civilization phase. He sees music as the primary art of music and painting and for the classical civilization it was more culture, it was more sculpture. So the newness in the forms become rigid. The art turns into copying essentially but I think anyone can see that New Roman sculpture has pretty much straight copies of Greek sculpture. And you can say the same thing with what happened with the Western art is that in a 19th century music in particular painting there were no great masters that were bursting on the scene at the same rate. By the time he gets to the 20th century it's sort