The Social History of Art
Subtitle: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism (Social History of Art (Routledge))
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415199476
First sentence: THE fact that the development of courtly art, which had been almost uninterrupted since the close of the Renaissance, comes to a standstill in the eighteenth century and is superseded by the bourgeois subjectivism which, on the whole, still dominates our own conception of art today, is well known, but the fact that certain features of the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.