- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (April 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415199476
- ISBN-13: 978-0415199476
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #804,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Unrivalled in its scope and ambition, Arnold Hauser's classic study can be placed alongside the writings of Schapiro, Wölfflin, and Panofsky as a critical contribution to the development of the history of art as discipline.
–Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary
This is an exciting, an irritating, a scholarly and an absolutely indispensable book.
–Art News and Reviews
Hauser's work repays reading because it was and remains the only comprehensive scholarly synthesis of the history of art from the perspective of historical materialism.
–Whitney Davies
–Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary
This is an exciting, an irritating, a scholarly and an absolutely indispensable book.
–Art News and Reviews
Hauser's work repays reading because it was and remains the only comprehensive scholarly synthesis of the history of art from the perspective of historical materialism.
–Whitney Davies
Book Description
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.
This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.
This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.
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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. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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. Read the first page
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