The Disintegration Of Form In The Arts by Erich von Kahler

A concise critical study tracing how late 19th- and early 20th-century developments in science, philosophy and society led to the breakdown of classical unity and coherent form across disciplines; it surveys changes in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature—highlighting fragmentation, abstraction and the loss of traditional harmonies—and interprets these artistic shifts as symptoms of a wider cultural and intellectual upheaval while considering their implications for the future of aesthetic expression.