The Social History of Art

Description

First published in 1951 as Socialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur, Arnold Hauser's comprehensive work explores the interaction between art and society. Through the detailing of social and historical movements Hauser provides insight into the origins of visual art.

First Sentence

THE fact that the development of courtly art, which had been almost uninterrupted since the close of the Renaissance, comes to a standstill in the eighteenth century and is superseded by the bourgeois subjectivism which, on the whole, still dominates our own conception of art today, is well known, but the fact that certain features of the new trend are already present in the rococo itself and that the break with courtly tradition really takes place in the first half of the eighteenth century is not so generally familiar.

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Other Editions

• The Social History of Art: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism (Social History of Art (Routledge))Routledge1999-04-01
• The social history of art.Routledge and Kegan Paul1951-01-01
• The social history of art.Routledge & Kegan Paul1951-01-01
• The social history of artVintage1957-01-01
• The social history of artVintage1957-01-01
• The social history of artVintage1958-01-01