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‘A global art history?’ considers a range of different examples of artistic practice from around the world, including the sculpture of the Dogon people of Mali and the calligraphy of Wu Zhen, who was active during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368).
Every work of art, whether a painting, sculpture, video or photograph has its own intrinsic qualities. These will inform our reading of it. To understand these qualities we need to look at the artwork formally, for example in terms of line, tone, colour, space, and mass.
May 22, 2024 · Art history provides a window into the world’s diverse cultures, offering insights into the human experience across time and geography. Here, we’ll explore how art reflects the broader societal values and historical contexts of various cultures.
The notion of “world” art studies has become an important point of discussion within subfields such as colonial Latin American art, precisely because it entails an interdisciplinary approach that helps to cut through inherited disciplinary boundaries around artists, styles, and periods.
Nov 10, 2015 · Through an analysis of art history programs at 91 institutions, this article investigates when and how local histories of art are introduced and integrated into the art history curriculum with the aim of exposing the disciplinary imbalances that currently hinder the study of world art. As an intervention into an ongoing theoretical debate, this ...
- Kristen Chiem, Cynthia S. Colburn
- 2015
Jul 15, 2024 · AP®︎ Art History. Below are short videos, essays, high-resolution photographs, and additional resources for each of the 250 required works of art that form the central curriculum for the AP®︎ Art History course.
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The most widely-used textbooks still organize the history of art in terms of the well-developed Western canon, with other art traditions presented as holistic, geographically based addenda that reduce the span of entire continents and multiple centuries to single chapters.
