Art History

Day : Monday
Date : May 30, 2016
Title : Art history
Time : 11.00 - 11.20 pm
Pages : No page

Thesis statement :

Art history is the historical discipline that deals largely, but not exclusively, with material objects. Traditionally, this has meant paintings, sculptures and buildings. Its work is centred on charting the history of the making of those objects across time and space, and, put loosely, doing history with them. The phrases 'history of art' and 'art history' are sometimes used to signal these two distinguishable but overlapping endeavours, but they are often used interchangeably. Sensibly, art history can be used as the umbrella term encompassing both activities.

Outline : 

• Art history can be used as the umbrella term encompassing both activities.
• The exploration of these qualities in particular cases, and in general, is still an important aspect of art historical enquiry.
• A great deal of art history is also done in museums and galleries.
• Some of these approaches, adopted since the 1970s, have been identified as forms of 'New Art History'.

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Resolutions :

Thus, art history seems tangled in doubts about procedures and ethics. However, away from the cut and thrust of these debates, art history is still being written confidently and with purpose, using the tools that are available. Art history's role in enabling us to engage imaginatively with the past remains an important one, and its scholarly investigation and celebration of the visual materials that societies use and value has perhaps, as we come to terms with globalisation, never been more vital.

Vocabulary-expression learned :

•  sculptures
• diversity
• reducible
• sustainable

Comment :

I think this article can make me know more knowledge about art.

http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/art_history.html