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Mannerism : the crisis of the Renaissance and the origin of modern art / Arnold Hauser.

By: Hauser, Arnold, 1892-1978 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [1965]Copyright date: ©1965Description: xx, 426 pages, [228] pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674548159 (paperback).Subject(s): Mannerism (Art)DDC classification: 709.031 Summary: "Arnold Hauser sees Mannerism--the expressionistic, anti-natural, anti-classical style prevalent in the sixteenth century--as a revolution in the history of art, a revolution with major repercussions for modern art. The noted Viennese culture critic here, as in The Social History of Art and The Philosophy of Art History, looks at developments in art in the context of social, economic, and intellectual history" - back cover.
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Translation of: Der Manierismus : die Krise der Renaissance und der Ursprung der modernen Kunst.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-406) and index.

"Arnold Hauser sees Mannerism--the expressionistic, anti-natural, anti-classical style prevalent in the sixteenth century--as a revolution in the history of art, a revolution with major repercussions for modern art. The noted Viennese culture critic here, as in The Social History of Art and The Philosophy of Art History, looks at developments in art in the context of social, economic, and intellectual history" - back cover.