Social History of Art. Mannerism：The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art

Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

Arnold Hauser

Routledge, Jun 27, 2005 - Art - 328 pages

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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.

Contents

Prehistoric times	1
Art from the age of the migrations to the Carolingian	4
animism and geometrism	8
art as a profession	17
AncientOriental urban cultures	22
Greece and Rome	49
The archaic style and art at the courts of the Tyrants	60
Classical art and democracy	72

The artistic style of Byzantine Caesaropapism	116
Causes and consequences of iconoclasm	123
The miniature painting of the Irish monks	130
The cultural monopoly of the Church	136
The epic poets and their public	142
The organization of artistic production in the monasteries	152
Feudalism and the Romanesque style	159
The romanticism of court chivalry	175

The age of enlightenment in Greece	81
The Hellenistic age	91
The Empire and the end of the ancient world	97
VII	108
The Middle Ages	109

The dualism of Gothic art	210
Lodge and guild	222
The middleclass art of the late Gothic period	230
Copyright

Title The Social History of Art: Renaissance, mannerism, baroque, Volume 2
Volume 2 of The Social History of Art, Arnold Hauser, ISBN 041521386X, 9780415213868
The social history of art: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Jonathan Harris (historyk sztuki), ISBN 041521386X, 9780415213868
Author Arnold Hauser
Edition illustrated, reprint, revised
Publisher Routledge, 1999
ISBN 0415199468, 9780415199469
Length 232 pages

Social History of Art, Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism

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Arnold Hauser

Routledge, Aug 19, 2005 - Art - 288 pages

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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.

Contents

The dissolution of courtly art	1
The new reading public	34
The origins of domestic drama	77
Germany and the enlightenment	92
Revolution and art	122
German and western romanticism	153
The struggle for the theatre	187

Pixerecourt	193
English romanticism	195
Walter Scott and the new reading public	203
The dissolution of classical form in music	210
Index	223
Copyright

Mannerism
The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art

Arnold Hauser

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$26.50 • £17.95 • €24.50

ISBN 9780674548152

Publication: 1965/March 1986  *Routledge & Paul, 1965

This informative book: Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art is a gem. This volume is for anyone interested in painting and in the history of ideas. One of the greatest interest to Renaissance scholars and students, they will find this work pregnant with a thousand provocative ideas.

Contents

THE CONCEPT OF MANNERISM	3
THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE RENAISSANCE	23

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