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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)
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Se hennes öde. Undersökning av en ordlös roman från 1920-talets Tyskland
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Guide pour un musée féministe. Quelle place pour le féminisme dans les musées français ?
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Allemagne / années 1920 / nouvelle objectivité / August Sander
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Jean Cassou – Une histoire du musée
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Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
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Birgittinerna och deras bilder. En studie av bild, rum och betraktare i Vadstena klosterkyrka omkring år 1500
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Pourquoi n'y a-t-il pas eu de grands artistes femmes ?
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La Peinture impressionniste et la décoration
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Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History
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Invitadas : fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España, 1833-1931
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L'art et la race – L'Africain (tout) contre l'œil des Lumières
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Une Africaine au Louvre en 1800 : la place du modèle
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Couples modernes, 1900-1950
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Des déchets pour mémoire : l'utilisation de matériaux de récupération par les nouveaux réalistes (1955-1975)
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The Militant Muse - Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
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Artistes femmes, la parenthèse enchantée, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
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Créatrices en 1900. Femmes artistes en France dans les milieux symbolistes
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Passages : une histoire de la sculpture de Rodin à Smithson
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Le Relief au croisement des arts du XIXe siècle
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Art and Queer Culture
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Aby Warburg et l'image en mouvement
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Contre-déclin : Monet et Spengler dans les jardins de l'histoire
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Video thrills the Radio Star. Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen
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Handbuch der Ikonographie: Sakrale und profane Themen der bildenden Kunst
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Women Artists in Interwar France : Framing Femininities
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Les limites de la masculinité : l'androgyne dans l'art et la théorie de l'art en France, 1750-1830
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Arte, naturaleza y piedad. Miradas de la Basílica del Pino
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La légende de l'artiste
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Tomb Destruction and Scholarship: medieval monuments in early modern England
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Mélancolie : génie et folie en Occident
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Jane Poupelet (1874-1932) - La beauté dans la simplicité
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