[The Social History of Art 04] • Social History of Art, Volume 4 by Hauser, Arnold -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Cover THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART VOLUME IV Title Page Copyright CONTENTS List of Illustrations General Introduction Introduction to Volume IV I Naturalism and Impressionism

1 The Generation of 1830

The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century The Rule of Capital The Permanent Revolution Journalism and Literature The Serial Novel 'L'art Pour L'art' Stendhal as Spokesman of Post-Revolutionary Youth The Idea of the Class Struggle Classical-Romantic and Modern Psychology Balzac's Sociology The Pathology of Capitalism The Discovery of the Ideological Determination of Thought The ‘Triumph of Realism' The Renewal of Cyclical Form The Secret of Balzac's Art

2 The Second Empire

Eclecticism The Naturalism of the Mid-Century Courbet Art as Relaxation The Reinterpretation of ‘L'art Pour L'art' Flaubert's Wrestling with the Spirit of Romanticism Aesthetic Nihilism The Struggle for the ‘Mot Juste' 'Bovarysm' Flaubert's Conception of Time Zola The ‘Idealism' of the Bourgeoisie The New Theatre Public The Apotheosis of the Family in the Drama The ‘Pièce Bien Faite The Operetta 'Grand Opera' Richard Wagner

3 The Social Novel in England and Russia

Idealists and Utilitarians The Second Romantic Movement The Pre-Raphaelites Ruskin Morris The Cultural Problem of Technics The Antecedents of the Social Novel in England The Novel in Monthly Instalments and the New Reading Public Dickens The Novel of the Mid-Victorian Period The Bourgeoisie and the Intelligentsia The Russian Intelligentsia Westernizers and Slavophils The Activism of the Russian Novel The Psychology of Self-Estrangement Dostoevsky Tolstoy

4 Impressionism

The Modern Dynamic Attitude to Life Impressionism and Naturalism The Predominance of Painting The Crisis of Naturalism Aesthetic Hedonism The ‘Vie Factice' The Decadent Movement The Artist and the Bourgeois Outlook on Life The Escape from Civilization The Transformation of the Bohème Symbolism 'Poèsie Pure' Modernism in England Dandyism The Aesthetic Movement Intellectualism International Impressionism Chekhov The Problem of the Naturalistic Drama Ibsen Shaw The Psychology of Exposure Freud Pragmatism Bergson and Proust

II The Film Age

The Crisis of Capitalism 'Mass Democracy' Anti-Impressionism 'Terrorists' and ‘Rhetoricians' Dadaism and Surrealism The Crisis of the Psychological Novel Space and Time in the Film The Experience of Simultaneity The Problem of Collectivism in art Production The Cinema Public Russian Montage The Film as an Instrument of Propaganda Film and Technics The Democratization of Art

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