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"Art history
has historically been understood as the
academic
study of objects of art in their
historical
development and stylistic contexts, i.e.
genre,
design,
format,
and
look.This
includes the "major" arts of painting,
sculpture, and architecture as well as the
"minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and
other decorative objects.
As a term, Art history (also
history of art)
encompasses several methods of studying the
visual arts;
in common usage referring to works of art
and architecture. Aspects of the discipline
overlap. As the art historian
Ernst Gombrich
once observed, "the field of art history
[is] much like
Caesar's
Gaul,
divided in three parts inhabited by three
different, though not necessarily hostile
tribes: (i) the
connoisseurs,
(ii) the
critics,
and (iii) the academic art historians". Source
Wikipedia |
