The Social History of Art

1953 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Gombrich ◽  
Arnold Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The E.A.T. Datascape: An Experiment in Digital Social History of Art

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-137
Author(s):  
Christophe Leclercq ◽  
Paul Girard ◽  
Daniele Guido
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Art History ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Art World ◽  
Robert Rauschenberg ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) is an organization co-founded in 1966 by artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, and engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, in order to support collaboration between artists and engineers. The E.A.T. datascape is a digital instrument for analyzing the digitized traces left by its members via many available resources. Its aim is to study as closely as possible the complexity of collaborative interdisciplinary works. The E.A.T. datascape methodology makes it possible, by means of an anthropological action-centred approach, to go beyond the distinction between art history and art sociology and to renew the social history of art by challenging the notion of authorship and by describing the work as constituted by the intersection between heterogeneous trajectories, rather than an object within a context that would influence it, or constitute its environment. In other words, it allows us to reflect on what digital design does, in turn, to the social history of art, and to put forward hypotheses about what a digital social history of art might be or could offer to the study of complex, interdisciplinary projects that are multiplying in the contemporary art world.

The Social History of Art

1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 989-992
Author(s):  
Peter Burke
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

The Social History of Art

1953 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Walter Abell ◽  
Arnold Hauser ◽  
S. Godman
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

V. Gordon Childe and Arnold Hauser on the social origins of the artist

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110533
Author(s):  
Jim Berryman
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social History ◽  
Art History ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Western Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Marxist Interpretation

Vere Gordon Childe’s theory of craft specialisation was an important influence on Arnold Hauser’s book The Social History of Art, published in 1951. Childe’s Marxist interpretation of prehistory enabled Hauser to establish a material foundation for the occupation of the artist in Western art history. However, Hauser’s effort to construct a progressive basis for artistic labour was complicated by art’s ancient connections to religion and superstition. While the artist’s social position and class loyalties were ambiguous in Childe’s accounts of early civilisations, Hauser consigned artists to the lower echelons of society. This relegation did not imply that Hauser had a low regard for artistic skills. Quite the opposite, the artist’s inferior social status enabled Hauser to distance artists from the ruling class, and consequently, to separate artistic handiwork from the dominant ideology that works of art manifested.

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