A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1: Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800 - Softcover

Boime, Albert

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9780226063348: A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1: Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800
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ISBN 10: 0226063348 ISBN 13: 9780226063348
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Synopsis

In A Social History of Modern Art, a sweeping multivolume social history of Western art from the French Revolution to World War I, Albert Boime moves beyond the concern with style and form that has traditionally characterized the study of art history and, in the tradition of Arnold Hauser, examines art in a broad historical context. Into his wide-ranging cultural inquiry Boime incorporates not only frequently studied mainstream artists and sculptors but also neglected and lesser known artists and unattributed popular imagery. He examines popular as well as official culture, the family as well as the state, and the conditions of the poor as well as of the affluent that affected cultural practice.

This inaugural volume explores the artistic repercussions of the major political and economic events of the latter half of the eighteenth century: the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution, and the English industrial revolution. Boime examines the prerevolutionary popularity of the rococo style and the emergence of the cult of antiquity that followed the Seven Years' War. He shows how the continual experiments of Jacques-Louis David and others with neoclassical symbols and themes in the latter part of the century actively contributed to the transformation of French and English politics. Boime's analyses reveal the complex relationship of art with a wide range of contemporary attitudes and conditions—technological innovation, social and political tensions, commercial expansion, and the growth of capitalism.

"Provocative and endlessly revealing."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Herald Examiner

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Albert Boime is professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226063348
ISBN 13 
9780226063348
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
550
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