A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1: Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800 (Vol 1)
By Albert Boime.
Description
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 we...
ISBN(s)
0226063348, 9780226063348
