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Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to an ever-evolving definition of art. Art history encompasses the study of objects created by different cultures around the world and throughout history that convey meaning, importance or serve usefulness primarily through visual representations. As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value for individual works with respect to others of comparable style or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and art theory or "philosophy of art", which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art. One branch of this area of study is aesthetics, which includes investigating the enigma of the sublime and determining the essence of beauty. Technically, art history is not these things, because the art historian uses historical method to answer the questions: How did the artist come to create the work?, Who were the patrons?, Who were their teachers?, Who was the audience?, Who were their disciples?, What historical forces shaped the artist's oeuvre and how did he or she and the creation, in turn, affect the course of artistic, political and social events? It is, however, questionable whether many questions of this kind can be answered satisfactorily without also considering basic questions about the nature of art. The current disciplinary gap between art history and the philosophy of art (aesthetics) often hinders this inquiry. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre art history 31
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Picasso and Truth
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Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London
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American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Sculpture of the City of London
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American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent
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Classici dell'arte
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Western Collection: Paintings and Sculpture
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Edward Hopper: Portraits of America
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The Western Heritage, Renaissance to Twentieth Century
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Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin'
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975
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Hendrick Terbrugghen
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Lovis Corinth: Die Gemälde
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Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin
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Tragic Life of Vincent van Gogh
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Principles of Art History
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Women in the fine arts, from the seventh century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D.
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Ukiyo-e Ruikō
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Facial Angles
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The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses
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The New Theatre of Dutch Painters
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The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, V1
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Het Gulden Cabinet
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Schilder-boeck
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Old Masters: German and French Art of the 19th Century
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
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Illustrated Summary Catalog of the Paintings of the Louvre Museum Volume 2: Italy, Spain, Great Britain and others
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The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Roman Art: A Resource for Educators
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Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale: The Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in Reality and Virtual Reality
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Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Works about art history 72
- Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
- musée haut, musée bas
- Art and Queer Culture
- Grammaire des arts du dessin : architecture, sculpture, peinture
- AAM Guide to Provenance Research
- Arte, naturaleza y piedad. Miradas de la Basílica del Pino
- The Beautiful Boy
- Video thrills the Radio Star. Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen
- World of Art
- Orbis pictus: Weltkunst-Bücherei
- The Arts in Britain: a history
- Histoire artistique des ordres mendiants
- Zum Problem der Beschreibung und Inhaltsdeutung von Werken der bildenden Kunst
- Letteratura artistica
- Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
- Artistes en Bretagne
- Handbuch der Ikonographie: Sakrale und profane Themen der bildenden Kunst
- Birgittinerna och deras bilder. En studie av bild, rum och betraktare i Vadstena klosterkyrka omkring år 1500
- The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
- The Reformation and the Visual Arts: the Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe
- Medieval Art
- Tomb Destruction and Scholarship: medieval monuments in early modern England
- Northern Painting from Pucelle to Bruegel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- The Discovery of Scotland. The Appreciation of Scottish Scenery through Two Centuries of Painting
- Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany
- California Studies in the History of Art
- Se hennes öde. Undersökning av en ordlös roman från 1920-talets Tyskland
- Hiersemanns Handbücher
- Geschichte der Deutschen Kunst
- Geschichte der deutschen Kunst
- Geschichte der neuen deutschen Kunst
- Figure
- La légende de l'artiste
- Guide pour un musée féministe. Quelle place pour le féminisme dans les musées français ?
- Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History
- Invitadas : fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España, 1833-1931
- Couples modernes, 1900-1950
- Pourquoi n'y a-t-il pas eu de grands artistes femmes ?
- Allemagne / années 1920 / nouvelle objectivité / August Sander
- Mélancolie : génie et folie en Occident
- Éclats, prises de vue clandestines des camps nazis
- Aby Warburg et l'image en mouvement
- L'évolution de l'art vers l'immatériel : conférence à la Sorbonne
- L'hermaphrodite de Nadar
- Sur Walter Benjamin
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