Arnold Hauser

Social History of Art, Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134637591
• Artikelnr.: 38246212

Autorenporträt

Arnold Hauser

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
General introduction
Introduction to volume I
I. Prehistoric times
1. Old Stone Age: magic and naturalism
2. New Stone Age: animism and geometrism
3. The artist as magician and priest: art as a profession and domestic craft
II. Ancient-Oriental urban cultures
1. Static and dynamic elements in Ancient-Oriental art
2. The status of the artist and the organization of artistic production
3. The stereotyping of art in the Middle Kingdom
4. Naturalism in the age of Akhenaton
5. Mesopotamia
6. Crete
III. Greece and Rome
1. The heroic and the Homeric ages
2. The archaic style and art at the courts of the Tyrants
3. Classical art and democracy
4. The age of enlightenment in Greece
5. The Hellenistic age
6. The Empire and the end of the ancient world
7. Poets and artists in the ancient world
IV. The Middle Ages
1. The spirituality of early Christian art
2. The artistic style of Byzantine Caesaropapism
3. Causes and consequences of iconoclasm
4. Art from the age of the migrations to the Carolingian Renaissance
5. The epic poets and their public
6. The organization of artistic production in the monasteries
7. Feudalism and the Romanesque style
8. The romanticism of court chivalry
9. The dualism of Gothic art
10. Lodge and guild
11. The middle-class art of the late Gothic period
Notes
Index