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Art history

Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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emblem

Art history; Visual arts

Generally, an object or image that stands symbolically for a quality, action, state or class; more specifically, a drawing expressing a moral fable or allegory.

copyright

Art history; Visual arts

The right to publish, produce, sell, and/or distribute an artwork (or to delegate these functions), granted either to an artist or (in the united states) her representatives for ...

dada

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in visual art, literature, dance, and theatre that flourished in various urban centers around europe (including zurich, berlin and paris) following the first world war ...

cubism

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in painting that flourished mainly in paris in the first decades of the twentieth century, led by pablo picasso and georges braque (and greatly influenced by paul ...

documentary

Art history; Visual arts

Anything designed to convey effectively the factual record on some topic (most often used of films); documentation is often the only material product of much conceptual and ...

duecento

Art history; Visual arts

From the Italian for “two hundred,” designating the thirteenth century (i.e. “one-thousand two hundreds”).

ekphrasis

Art history; Visual arts

From the greek for “description,” writing that proposes to give a verbal rendition of something visual, whether real or imagined, typically with the intent of inciting a mental ...