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art history

vr.tr.art-history · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain art history as a discipline and its methods, support analysis of artworks and periods, identify scholarship and resources, and present debates about the canon and methods with attribution.

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Research draft, second pass

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain art history as a discipline and its methods, support analysis of artworks and periods, identify scholarship and resources, and present debates about the canon and methods with attribution.

The academic study of the visual arts and their development over time, examining works of painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts and new media in their historical, cultural and social contexts, using methods such as iconography, formal and stylistic analysis, connoisseurship, social history and digital art history, and encompassing subfields such as the history of sculpture and the history of art criticism; art history is a humanities discipline taught in universities and practised in museums.

What it is for: Study of visual arts over time.

It can be explain the discipline and methods; support analysis; identify scholarship; present debates.

Distinguishing features

Historical method

Visual analysis

Contextual interpretation

Museum practice

What it looks like

Not physical; a scholarly discipline.

How it is recognised

Study of visual arts in context

Iconography, style, social history

Art criticism evaluates contemporary work; aesthetics is philosophy of art

Related models

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humanities

is a kind of - category

visual art education

is related to - methods of historical writing

historiography

is related to - a medium studied in art history

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In practice

Families and kinds

history of painting

history of sculpture

history of architecture

iconography and iconology

digital art history

Standards and regulation

Scholarly citation and provenance standards

Museum and cataloguing standards

Copyright for image reproduction

Failure modes and hazards

Eurocentric canon

Attribution errors and forgeries

Presenting contested interpretations as settled

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.art-history

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What art history is.

Scholarship.

Discipline

Discipline and methods.

Discipline

Discipline.

  1. What does art history study, and how do iconography, formal analysis, connoisseurship and social history approach artworks? definition
  2. Which method or period is meant? boundary

Periods

Periods and traditions.

Periods

Periods.

  1. How is the history of art periodised across traditions, and how do global art histories challenge older canons? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific period or tradition? action
Analyse Analysing artworks.

Practice.

Analyse

Analysis.

Analyse

Analysis.

  1. How can this artwork be analysed in form, iconography, context and provenance? action
  2. Which entry fits a specific artwork? action

Research

Research resources.

Research

Research.

  1. Which catalogues, image databases and archives support art historical research? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Debate Debates.

Attribution.

Canon

Canon and inclusion.

Canon

Canon.

  1. What debates surround the art historical canon, gender and global inclusion, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Digital

Digital art history.

Digital

Digital.

  1. How are computational methods changing art history? provenance
  2. Which entry fits digital humanities? action
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History of the discipline.

History

History.

  1. How did art history develop from Vasari through Winckelmann, Wolfflin and Panofsky to today? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific art historian? action

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How is art history taught in universities and museums? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each subfield be a separate entry?
  • How should image databases be linked?
  • How should canon debates be attributed?
Draft as JSON