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Social History
Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life
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Tell the Truth. Make it Special.
Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown.
Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.
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Klingender's book, striking notes both desperate and defiant, is not typical of the long British tradition of Marxist and Marxist-inspired histories of art that would extend into the 1980s. The so-called social history of art interpreted art as the expression of the interests of communities or classes. In the past, art was paid for and shaped by the elite and the powerful. In the future, art would express the vision and will of democratic collectivities. The reality that art delivered was the re
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― A History of Art History
― A History of Art History
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