Ebook: The Social History of Art. Volume III: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism

Third Edition. — Routledge, London & New York, 1999. — 234 pages. Language: English.This, the third book of Arnold Hauser’s series The Social History of Art, deals with the period in Western art between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Though the
book’s subtitle 'Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism appears to offer as the basis of its subject matter the orthodox art-historical narrative of abstract stylistic sequence, Hauser’s analysis actually
starts from the premise that 'style' and 'society' constitute a unified, though complex and sometimes opaque, whole.