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[https://academic.oup.com/book/870/chapter-abstract/135469635?redirectedFrom=fulltext by Dana Arnold 1/24 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | [https://academic.oup.com/book/870/chapter-abstract/135469635?redirectedFrom=fulltext by Dana Arnold 1/24 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | ||
In ‘What is art history?’ the term ‘art history’ is discussed and the difference between art appreciation and art history established. The work of art is our primary evidence, and it is our interaction between this evidence and methods of enquiry that forms art history. Art appreciation and criticism are also linked to connoisseurship. How is connoisseurship related to taste? The view of art history as a ‘progression’ is analyzed and challenged. | In ‘What is art history?’ the term ‘art history’ is discussed and the difference between art appreciation and art history established. The work of art is our primary evidence, and it is our interaction between this evidence and methods of enquiry that forms art history. Art appreciation and criticism are also linked to connoisseurship. How is connoisseurship related to taste? The view of art history as a ‘progression’ is analyzed and challenged. | ||
=====Creativity is an intrinsic part of being human. While every animal experiences emotions, no other animal has the ability to express how it thinks, feels and sees through the creation of works of art.===== | |||
[https://www.thehistoryofart.org/ by Tom Gurney TheHistoryOfArt.org] | |||
The art of earlier civilisations such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, even though intriguing and highly developed, was viewed as more primitive than that of Hellenic culture. The Greeks laid the foundations of art as we understand it, or so it was argued. See also the Seven Wonders of the World. | |||
