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Art History
The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts including painting, sculpture and architecture. Considered encyclopedically, the history of art is an attempt to survey art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods by their distinguishing features. This is undertaken by people and institutions with diverging goals, but whose efforts interrelate, including: academic art historians, museum curators, auction house personnel, private collectors, and religious adherents. Given these agendas, it is unsurprising that there are many ways of structuring a history of art, as
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La historia del arte es una concatenación de rescates, rechazos e imitaciones en busca de la alteridad. Hay un replanteo permanente de los cánones históricos: incluyen lo que antes se excluía y excluyen lo que antes se incluía. La institución museística no sólo preserva el pasado en medio de la contemporaneidad, sino que también le ofrece a una generación viva, actual, una perspectiva después de la muerte.
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― Becoming an Artwork
― Becoming an Artwork
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This simple fact of sculpture making is as true today (Jeff Koons, anyone?) as it was in the nineteenth century. But critics of the Marmorean Flock used it to raise the ageless trope against women artist: they are not the authors of their own works. Marmorean Flock member Harriet Hosmer railed against such spiteful ignorance: "We women-artists have no objection to its being known that we employ assistants; we merely object to its being supposed that it is a system peculiar to ourselves." Nearly
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― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
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