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art historian

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Noun1.art historian - a historian of artart historian - a historian of art                  
historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it


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Written by art historians based in the US and Europe, the essays describe topics that include Giacometti's studio and his attitudes towards the artist's studio, his numerous commissions for tombs and funerary sculpture, his surrealist work, individual sculptures, and his theory of making sculpture.
So, for example, when the abstract expressionists became famous, art historians developed commentaries on these artists and the journalistic writings of their best champion, Clement Greenberg.
The text draws on Blumenschein's papers and archival sources to explore his life and place in American history and culture, while contributions by art historians round out the presentation and supplement well the full-page, full-color reproductions of his art.
 
 
 
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