Social History of Art: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism v. 3 - Softcover

Hauser, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0710046316 ISBN 13: 9780710046314

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973

Synopsis

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.

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).

Review

"This is an exciting, an irritating, a scholarly and an absolutely indispensable book. Dr. Hauser is to be congratulated on producing a book which through its 1,022 pages never produces a paragraph which is not full of stimulation." -- Art News and Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0710046316
• ISBN 13: 9780710046314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244