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art history

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Noun1.art history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculptureart history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture
arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
iconology - the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)


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But then Stefano, who I later found out would be my art history teacher, came around the corner, with a huge sign that read "Abbey Road
95 Hardcover N5300 Written for beginning students of art history and anyone wanting a sound overview of the theoretical ideas on which western art history is based, this volume covers art theory from the earliest ideas in ancient Greece through the current ideas of postmodernism.
Examining art history through the framework of the biology of human vision, "The Artist's Eyes" is organized into informed and informative chapters dealing with the eye as an optical instrument, coding and contrast, color and its limitations, perspective and illusion, the 'aging eye', external eye disease, as well as cataract and glaucoma, retinal disease.
 
 
 
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