FROM STILUS TO STYLE: REFLECTIONS ON THE FATE OF A NOTION.

This article presents information on the study and teaching of art history. According to a art history professor, this discipline is a characteristic work of the soft style. It may in the first moment sound merely funny or phony but when contemplated deeply it takes everybody into the center of that vicious circle, where all the tantalizing hermeneutical difficulties are linked with the common problems of life. The term of hermeneutics was first coined by a German philosopher named Hans Georg Gadamer. Gadamer discussed in his writing that the notion of style is one of the undiscussed, self-evident concepts upon which the historical consciousness is based.