Abstract
The paper discusses T. J. Clark's social history of art, claiming that as a development upon the traditional version. Traditional social history of art assumes a simplistic relationship among class, ideology and art form, such as Hauser's notion of class identification as the determinant of artistic style. Clarks asserts that "class" and "ideology" may not be manifest in paintings but can be shown only when these external domains have exerted an influence on the visual structure of painting and changed the established concepts of painting such as tradition and convention in painting.
First Page
12
Last Page
16
Recommended Citation
Shen, Yubing. 2012. "Politics or Aesthetics? —— T. J. Clark's View of Social History of Art." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (3): pp.12-16. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss3/12
