ARTHIST 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Aby Warburg, Ernst Gombrich, Middlesex University
25 Mar 2017
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Rt history is the historical discipline that deals largely, but not exclusively, with material objects. Traditionally, this has meant paintings, sculptures and buildings. Its work is centred on charting the history of the making of those objects across time and space, and, put loosely, doing history with them. The phrases "history of art" and "art history" are sometimes used to signal these two distinguishable but overlapping endeavours, but they are often used interchangeably. Sensibly, art history can be used as the umbrella term encompassing both activities. (1) While we are on the subject of terminology, we should also address the term. "art" (the complexity of "history", and the variety of practice that it signals, is attended to in the rest of making history). What constitutes the category art has been, and continues to be a matter for debate within the field of art history.
