The Social History of Art (Volume 1: Prehistoric Times/Ancient-Oriental/Urban Cultures/Greece&Rome/The Middle Ages) - Softcover

Hauser, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394701143 ISBN 13: 9780394701141

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1985

Synopsis

A four volume study which relates the aesthetic achievements of particular historic periods to the social environments which encouraged and influenced them

About this title

About the Author:

Arnold Hauser was born in Hungary and studied literature and the history of art at the universities of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and Paris. In 1921 he returned to Berlin to study economics and sociology under Ernst Troeltsch. From 1923 to 1938 he lived in Vienna where he began work on The Social History of Art. He lived in London from 1938 until 1977, when he returned to his native Hungary. He died in Budapest in 1978. Jonathan Harris is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Keele. He is the author of Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America (1995), co-author of Modernism in Dispute: Art Since The Forties (1993) and co-editor of Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts (1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394701143
• ISBN 13: 9780394701141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267