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Arnold Hauser.
The Social History of Art: Volume One, From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages.
Published London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984 reprint (previously issued 1962).
ISBN 0710046294.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Unwin Bros., Old Woking; Headley Bros., Ashford.
Size: 137x216x15mm.
Page count: text xii,274pp; plates 12pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: covers rather creased, some wear at the edges and corners; the spine has a bump at the base, but is not creased from reading; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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[~~Publisher’s price for 3rd edn. £19.99~~]
Weight without packaging: 345g.

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Contents: Old stone age — magic & naturalism; New stone age — animism & geometrism; Artist as magician & priest — art as a profession & domestic craft; Static & dynamic elements in ancient-oriental art; Status of artist & organization of artistic production; Stereotyping art art in Middle Kingdom; Naturalism in age of Akhenaton; Mesopotamia; Crete; Heroic & Homeric ages; Archaic style & art at courts of the tyrants; Classical art & democracy; Age of enlightenment in Greece; Hellenistic age; Empire & end of ancient world; Poets & artists in ancient world; Spirituality of early Christian art; Artistic style of Byzantine Caesaro-Papism; Causes & consequences of iconoclasm; Age of migrations to Carolingian Renaissance; Epic poets & their public; Artistic production in monasteries; Feudalism & Romanesque style; Romanticism of court chivalry; Dualism of gothic art; Lodge & guild; Middle-class art of late gothic period.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

See also | Art history |

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