The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art, including the range of art objects purchased by various social groups; the conditions of artistic creativity and communication ...
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The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined. This group of essays focuses on three main issues: the demand for art, including the range of art objects purchased by various social groups; the conditions of artistic creativity and communication between different production centres and artistic millieux; and the emergence of art markets which served to link the first two phenomena. The work draws on new research by art historians and economic and social historians from Europe and the United States, and covers the period from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century.
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Book. Octavo, xi, 250 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Dark blue-green spine with white and black lettering. Dust jacket has mild wear along head and tail edges, mild denting along head corners and front tail corner, has pencil markings on rear flap, and mild wear along spine head and tail. Board spine is cocked, front board is warped, has mild wear along edges, rear board corners are bent, and mild wear along spine head and tail. Textblock has bends along head corners of pages 181, 189, 193, and 215, pencil markings on most pages, splitting to gutter from pages 19-90 and 155-rear end-page, an identification sticker adhesively attached to front end-page, a small red stamp on front end-page, a small stain on the fore edge, and mild wear along all edges. Shelved ND-C. 1379446. FP New Rockville Stock.