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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the study of works of art and architecture. In the mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status of an academic discipline by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt , who related art to its cultural environment, and the German idealists Alois Riegl, Heinrich Wölfflin , and Wilhelm Worringer. The latter three saw art history as the analysis of forms and viewed art apart from any function it serves in expressing the spirit of its age. Major 20th-century art historians include Henri Focillon, Bernard Berenson , Aby Warburg, émile Mâle , Erwin Panofsky , and Ernst Gombrich; the succeeding generation has included Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, Donald Kuspit, and Giselda Pollack. Modern art history is a broad field of inquiry embracing formal questions of stylistic development as well as considerations of social and cultural context. Since the 1970s, a heightened awareness of gender, ethnicity, and environmental issues has marked the work of many art historians. See Hauser, A. , The Social…
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Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882....
On 22 February 1848 in Paris near the Place de la Concorde, just before nightfall a soldier provoked by the crowd struck his bayonet into an unarmed man's chest. This was the first bloodshed of the revolution of 1848, which led to the downfall of Louis Philippe. The journalist Charles Toubin…
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"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the study of works of art and architecture. In the mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status of an academic discipline by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt , who related art to its cultural environment, and the German idealists Alois Riegl, Heinrich Wölfflin , and Wilhelm Worringer. The latter…
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Translated by Patrick Baker Art history, as a historical narrative, as the categorization or classification of the products of the figurative arts and their producers, presupposes the modern notion of "art," a cultural creation that came about in the 18th century, and that has its heart in artistry…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The study of works of art. German archaeologist Johann Winckelmann laid the foundations for a systematic study of art history as early as the mid-18th century, but it did not become an academic discipline until 1844 when a chair was established at Berlin University. Two basic approaches had emerged…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Historical study of the visual arts for the purpose of identifying, describing, evaluating, interpreting, and understanding art objects and artistic traditions. Art-historical research involves discovering and collecting biographical data on artists to establish attribution; determining at what…
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These invigorating reference volumes chart the influence of key ideas, discourses, and theories on art, and the way that it is taught, thought of, and talked about throughout the English-speaking world. Each volume brings together a team of respected international scholars to debate the state of…
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Within paranormal discourse, psychometry is the ability to perceive through touch what are reputedly magnetic, energetic or even ‘ethereal’ signatures imprinted in an object thereby providing details about the histories and affects connected with it ( Roll 2003 : 78). Coinciding with the rise of…
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