The Social History of Art, Volume 3 
Subtitle: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415045803
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; USA; History: American
First sentence: THE fact that the development of courtly art, which had been almost uninterrupted since the close of the Renaisance, comes to a standstill in the eighteenth century and is superseded by the bourgeois subjectivism which, on the whole, still dominates our own conception of art today, is well known, but the fact that certain features of the new trend are already present in the rococo itself and that the break with courtly tradition really takes place in the first half of the eighteenth century is not so generally familiar.