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A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1 - Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800 (Paperback, New Ed)
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A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1 - Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Social History of Modern Art
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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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