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In his "Principles of Art History," Heinrich Wölfflin wrote that not everything is possible at every time. Wölfflin had stylistic possibility (and impossibility) in mind, and it was his view that all artists belonging to a given period of art history share certain stylistic attributes, even if they should differ as sharply as the Dutch intimist Gerard Terborch did from his Italian contemporary Gianloreuzo Bernini. Art today has typically to be addressed from a plane different from the one the object itself occupies, so that even if one knows what the object is--a modular room, say--one does not know what the work is until one locates the plane from which it is to be interpreted.