ART 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Santa Barbara City College, Johan Huizinga
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History has, until recently, paid less attention to art history than to art history. Johan huizinga was one of the very few historians to show a professional interest in the fine arts in keeping with his urge, as articulated in the. Waning of the middle ages, to explain "forms of life and thought " a sort of morphology of the past. Nevertheless, a growing number of historians have recently begun to show an interest in visual matters. Historical works are often richly illustrated as is, for example, the new algemene geschiedenis der nederlanden while art history in this standard work does not seem to be taken entirely seriously. I don"t want to answer the vexing issue of exactly what"s covered by the word. "cultural history," but i imagine historians with wide interests who can make some use of the results of recent art history research. Let us say a historian like that works in the netherlands of the seventeenth century.
