The Social History of Art

From the point of view of the social history of art, the artwork is a product of a kind of social relation.

从艺术社会史的角度来看，艺术作品是在一种社会关系中产生出来的。

It is an important work with milestone significance in the history of social trends and even in the whole novel history of ancient China, with a unique achievement both in thought and art.

它是世情小说乃至整个中国古代小说史上一部具有里程碑意义的重要作品，无论是在思想还是在艺术上都具有独特的成就。

Of social life (also called the visual world), authors and works of the relationship between these three studies, is the starting point of all art history.

对社会生活(也可称为视觉世界)、作者和作品这三者之间关系的研究，是所有艺术史研究的切入点。