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Arnold Hauser

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Hungarian art historian (1892-1978)

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Born
1892
Died
1978
Works
49

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  • Społeczna historia sztuki i literatury
  • Khāstgāh-i ijtimāʻī-i hunarhā / [
  • Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur
  • Historia social de la literatura y el arte
  • Filozofia historii sztuki

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  • Folk-art signifies the poetical, musical and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneducated and not urbanized or industrialised.
  • We do not exactly know the sociological reason for reverence for the past; it may be rooted in tribal and family solidarity or in the endeavour of the privileged classes to base their privileges on heredity. However that may be, the feeling that what is old must be better is still so strong that art historians and archaeologists do not shrink even from historical falsification when attempting to prove that the style of art which appeals to them most is also the oldest.
  • The partial absorption of art by domestic industry and by domestic female crafts, that is to say, the fusion of artistic activity with other activities, is a retrogression from the standpoint of the division of labour and professional differentiation.
  • The end of the Neolithic age betokens almost as universal a re-orientation of life, almost as profound a revolution of economy and society, as its beginning. Then the break was marked by the transition from mere consumption to production, from primitive individualism to co-operation, now it is marked by the beginning of independent trade and handicrafts, the rise of cities and markets, and the agglomeration and differentiation of the population.
  • Such specialization and depersonalization of enquiry led inevitably to a taste for mere erudition and a temptation to eclecticism.
  • At last the bourgeois has a theatre of his own in which he really feels at home. In every little town there is a modest building, and in the big cities those new palaces of stone or marble whose remains still survive.

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date of birth
1892-05-08
date of death
1978-01-28
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