Home > Industry/Domain > Art history
Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
3Categories 24614Terms
Add a new termContributors in Art history
Art history > General art history 
industrial design
Art history; General art history
The design of mass-produced, machine-made goods. The word was first used in America in the 1920s to describe the work of specialist designers who worked on product design. ...
ink
Art history; General art history
An ancient writing and drawing medium, ink is still most commonly made of carbon and binders, but historically was also made from plant or animal sources such as iron gall and ...
installation
Art history; General art history
Term used to describe mixed-media art works which occupy an entire room or gallery space and into which usually the spectator can enter. Some installations, however, are designed ...
installation art
Art history; General art history
Also described as environments, the term is used to describe mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time. ...
institutional critique
Art history; General art history
The act of critiquing an institution as artistic practice, the institution usually being a museum or an art gallery. Institutional criticism began in the late 1960s when artists ...
atelier
Art history; General art history
A literal translation of the French word 'atelier' is studio or workshop. The individual artist's studio was also a place where the teaching of young artists took place but this ...
assemblage
Art history; General art history
Art made by assembling disparate elements often scavenged by the artist, sometimes bought specially. The practice goes back to Picasso's Cubist constructions, the three ...
Sub-categories
- General art history (13487)
- Renaissance (24)
- Visual arts (11058)