Main entry:
Hauser, Arnold, 1892-1978.
Title & Author:
The sociology of art / Arnold Hauser ; translated by Kenneth J. Northcott.
Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Description:
xxi, 776 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Fundamentals : Totality of life and the totality of art : Intensive and extensive totality ; The “Triumph of Realism” ; Art as weapon in the struggle for life ; Bias of art ; The “loss of reality” ; Primitive and complex cultural unity -- Spontaneity and convention : Spontaneity and inspiration ; Causality and correspondence ; Spontaneity in art and perception ; Character and stimulus ; The language of art ; Origin and change of conventions ; Unity and the analysis of experiences ; Routine and improvisation -- Sociology and psychology : Individual and society ; From imitation to originality ; On the history of individualism ; Sociological and psychological motivation ; Psychologism, sociologism, and aestheticism ; Social structures ; Class consciousness, ideology, and rationalization ; Style and ideal type -- Art and historicity : The contemporary and the “eternal human” ; “Backward-looking prophecy” ; “Art history without names” and historicity ; Causality and coincidence ; Artistic development’s freedom from value ; Validity in theory and art ; Historicity and timelessness -- The interaction between art and society : Introduction: interaction and dialectic ; Art as a product of society : The elements of artistic creation ; Natural factors : Geographical-climatic, ethnic-national, and biological-psychological data. The generation factor ; The cultural factors : Social station ; Origin ; Property class ; Professional status ; Artistic education ; Tradition ; Organization of artistic work ; Prestige ; Intelligentsia and boheme ; Artistic federations. Historical materialism : Materialism and realism ; Modifications of the materialist view of history ; The “parallelogram of forces” ; Leap and mediation ; Selection and constitution ; Correspondence and discrepancy between social and artistic values. The role of artist in the life of society : Propaganda and ideology : Manifest tendency and latent ideology ; The discovery of the ideological nature of thought ; “False consciousness” and “rationalism” ; Limits of the critique of ideology ; The problem of truth in art and science ; Turncoats ; The “triumph of realism” once more ; Revelatory thought ; Consciousness and the ability to be conscious ; Ideology and the history of style ; Relativism of the history of style. The position of the artist in the changing course of history : Prehistory ; Ancient East ; Antiquity ; Middle ages ; Renaissance ; Mannerism and baroque ; Rococo and enlightenment ; Romanticism ; Naturalism and impressionism -- Society as the product of art : Art as social criticism : Iconoclasts and aesthetes ; “Critique of life” ; Value and effort of art. L’art pour l’art problem : Formalization of artistic structures ; The homogeneity of the media ; Aesthetic immanence and illusion ; The threshold of the artistic ; The “form-content” identity ; Applied art and “pure” art ; Form as content ; “You must change your life” ; Humanization of things and the objectivization of the human -- Dialectic: light and will-o'-the-wisp : The concept of dialectic : Art and science ; Structure of dialectic -- The principle of contradiction : The double truth : The limit as an element of the delimited ; Immanence and transcendence ; Resistance and contradiction ; Identity. The structure of the dialectical process : Tripartite structure ; Dialogue ; Dialectic and historicity . The dialectic process : The human and the objective element ; The turning of quantity into quality ; Paradoxes of dialectic ; Self-movement. The concept of “aufhebung” : Historical achievements ; Tradition ; Progress and totality . Analysis and synthesis : Presupposed synthesis ; The “trap of totality” . Methodological and ontological dialectic : The dialectic of concepts ; Real dialectic ; Categorical contents and categorical forms -- The dialectic of history and nature : Critical and prophetic theory of history : Historicism ; The subject of dialectic processes ; Ontology and establishment ; Structure and historicity ; Freedom and bondage ; Prognosis. The fiction of the dialectic of nature : Mute nature ; Historizing of nature ; Polar, complementary, contrary, and contradictory ; Man, nature, history -- The dialectic of the aesthetic : The paradoxes of art : Depsychologization and animation ; Desire and renunciation of the world . Artistic creation : Paradigms of dialectic ; Stages of artistic creation ; Conscious and unconscious ; Marx, Fiedler, Lessing. The dialectic of structure : Structure and score ; Form and content. The process of art history : Change in style ; Dualism of style ; Change of style from within and without ; Form and technique -- Limits of dialectic : Evolution and revolution ; Parting of the ways ; Ambivalence and dialectic ; The philosophy of identity ; Dialectical movement and self-movement ; Fetishization of negation ; Growth of antitheses ; Totality -- En route from author to public : Address and discussion : The productive and receptive subject ; The work offered and received ; Mediators between author and public ; I and you ; Production as a product of consumption ; The work of art as dialogue -- On the experience of art : Education of artist and connoisseur ; The legitimacy of different artistic measures of value ; Reception as misunderstanding or “better” understanding of the work of art -- The consumers of art : Social structure and interest in art ; Subtlety and mobility of cultural strata ; The dimension of the groups of the public ; “You” singular and “you” plural ; Historical types and composition of the public -- The mediators : Signs and interpretation ; Being and meaning ; Varieties of mediation ; The connoisseur and the naive recipient ; The legend of the artist ; Help and hindrance ; The conductor ; Monopoly of interpretation -- Art criticism : Interpretation and evaluation ; Criticism and translation ; The critic as expert ; Feeling for quality and value judgement ; Division of labor in criticism ; Subjective and objective art criticism ; Critics, aesthetes, art historians, and essayists ; Self-criticism ; The democratization of criticism ; Misjudgments -- Institutions of mediation : Functions and development of institutions ; Courts and salons ; Theater ; Museum ; Library -- The art trade : Mediation and alienation ; Economy ; Development of the art market ; Ideal and real value ; Loss of the aura of the original -- Understanding and misunderstanding : Understanding and substantiation ; Understanding and its reference to life ; Unavoidable misunderstanding ; The “retroactive” force of the present ; The typology of musical understanding -- Success and failure : Talent and success ; Tensions between artistic and political point of view ; The cult of being misunderstood ; Defeat without compensation -- Social and antisocial motives : Humanism and egoism ; The magic shock ; Separation ; Flight into inarticulateness ; Narcissus and Orpheus -- The differentiation of art according to cultural strata : Class and culture : Concept of cultural stratum ; “Free-floating intelligentsia” ; Social mobility ; Cultural privilege ; Art history in cross sections -- The art of the cultural elite : Historicity of cultural strata ; Ideal types of culture ; Works of high art ; Tradition and avant-garde -- Folk-art : The theory : Naive and natural ; Hypostasis of group attitudes ; Romanticism and psychoanalysis ; Folk-art and peasant art ; Communal culture ; “Devalued cultural goods” ; Literature and folk-poetry. The history : New stone age ; Period of the migrations ; Middle ages ; Modern era -- Popular art : Definition : Tension and relaxation ; Reassurance and flight ; “What does the public want?” ; The ideology of popular art ; Proletarian art ; Kitsch. Stages of development : End of antiquity ; Middle ages ; Enlightenment ; The second empire -- Mass art : Mechanical reproducibility ; Administered art ; Composition of the mass public ; The “great public” ; Prehistory -- An interpretation of mass culture : The end of the Gutenberg era ; Visual continuity and acoustic-optical simultaneity ; Technological reproducibility ; Multimedia forms ; “The medium is the message” -- The mass media : The best-seller : Triviality ; Comfort ; Reduction of the reading public ; Threatened security. The film : Beginnings of mass art ; The middle class as the supporters of social equalization ; Montage ; Time and space ; The most recent history of the film. Radio and television : Radio, television, and film – didactic and artistic function ; Cultural dictatorship and ideology ; The formal principles of television -- Pop art : Homogeneous and heterogeneous characteristics : Birth of a fourth cultural stratum ; “Pop” and popular ; Ambiguity of pop art ; Social coefficients ; The “landscape” of pop painting. Pop music : Pop music and jazz ; The Beatles ; Romanticism and antiromanticism ; The history of pop music. Pop painting : Social and cultural criticisms ; Devaluation of the painterly ; Neo-dada -- The end of art? : Concepts of the demise of art : “Art is what counts as art” ; Technical reproducibility of the work of art ; Change in function of art ; Impossibility of predicting historical development -- Presuppositions of present-day art : Ideological conditions : The beginning of the moder period ; Crisis of capitalism ; End of impressionism ; Dada as a wartime phenomenon ; Post-Auschwitz ; Crisis and end of art; Collapse of liberal humanism ; Existentialism and art ; Existential and psychoanalytical point of view . Stylist assumptions ; Modernism : Integration and collapse ; Mannerism and modernism ; Baudelaire ; Mallarme and symbolism . Avant-gardism : Concept of the avant-garde ; Art nouveau ; Dada and futurism. Expressionism : Structure and sentiment ; Confusion of taste among the haute bourgeoisie ; Deformation as symbol and convention ; Socialist criticism of e
Translation of: Soziologie der Kunst.
xpressionism. Cubism : Abstract and concrete ; The new realism ; Norms and limits of realism. Surrealism : Expression and surrealism ; Subordination and juxtaposition ; World and supraworld ; Realistic details and nonrealistic contexts ; Montage, mobility, totality ; Under the sign of the film ; Metaphor -- Symptoms of crisis in present-day art : Sincerity and credibility : Art and science ; Anti-espressivo ; Diderot, Hegel, Marx . The pressure to escape : Flight from sentimentalism and hedonism ; Removal of plot, hero, and psychology. The principle of negation : “I won’t play” ; The document ; The antihero ; Objectivization of the subject ; The ego and the id ; Prognoses of the end of art ; Aesthetic distance ; Authenticity and relevance. The crisis of the novel ; The dissolution of genres : Removal of the old novel ; The scientific novel ; The linguistic element ; Perceptions ; Fiction and reality ; Objectivity and alienation of consciousness. The nouveau roman : The realism of the nouveau roman ; Subjectivism and objectivism ; Disengagement ; Immanence and transcendence ; The nouveau roman as antiart. The autogenesis of the novel : The novel as its genetic history ; The essayistic element ; Self-reflection ; Conscious self-deception ; Inner monologue. The legacy of surrealism : Franz Kafka ; Samuel Beckett ; Regression of language of existentialism and postexistentialism. The absurd ; The concept of the absurd : Existentialism and surrealism ; Art as attack on reality ; The inexplicability of the absurd . The homo absurdus : The origin of the homo absurdus ; Disintegration of personality ; The tragic and absurd schism ; Dostoievski ; Camus ; The absurdity of the inner monologue. The understanding of the incomprehensible ; Silence ; Crises of language : Functions of language ; Hypertrophy and atrophy ; The “attack on the unarticulated”. Categories of keeping silent : Keeping silent as a positive and a negative. Criticism of keeping silent : Mythicization of the inexpressible ; Silence and chatter ; Continuation of art in spite of crises in the media.
ISBN:
0226319490
9780226319490
0226319504
9780226319506
Subject:
Arts and society.
Arts et société.
Added entries:
Northcott, Kenneth J., translator.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 101508
Call No.: 9166 A623; ID:86-B20227
Status: Available
