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Index
Front Cover
THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
General introduction
Introduction to volume I
I Prehistoric times
1 Old Stone Age: magic and naturalism
2 New Stone Age: animism and geometrism
3 The artist as magician and priest: art as a profession and domestic craft
II Ancient-Oriental urban cultures
1 Static and dynamic elements in Ancient-Oriental art
2 The status of the artist and the organization of artistic production
3 The stereotyping of art in the Middle Kingdom
4 Naturalism in the age of Akhenaton
5 Mesopotamia
6 Crete
III Greece and Rome
1 The heroic and the Homeric ages
2 The archaic style and art at the courts of the Tyrants
3 Classical art and democracy
4 The age of enlightenment in Greece
5 The Hellenistic age
6 The Empire and the end of the ancient world
7 Poets and artists in the ancient world
IV The Middle Ages
1 The spirituality of early Christian art
2 The artistic style of Byzantine Caesaropapism
3 Causes and consequences of iconoclasm
4 Art from the age of the migrations to the Carolingian Renaissance
5 The epic poets and their public
6 The organization of artistic production in the monasteries
7 Feudalism and the Romanesque style
8 The romanticism of court chivalry
9 The dualism of Gothic art
10 Lodge and guild
11 The middle-class art of the late Gothic period
Notes
Index
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