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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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Der Blaue Reiter
Art history; General art history
German Expressionist group. In English, The Blue Rider. Originated in 1909 in the city of Munich, where the Neue Kunstler Vereiningung, or New Artist Association (N. K. V. ) was ...
degenerate art
Art history; General art history
Degenerate art is the English translation of the German phrase Entartete Kunst. In 1933 the National Socialist (Nazi) party under its leader Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany ...
deconstruction
Art history; General art history
A form of criticism, which involves discovering, recognising and understanding the underlying—and unspoken and implicit—assumptions, ideas and frameworks of cultural forms such as ...
décollage
Art history; General art history
French word meaning literally to unstick. The term is generally associated with the Nouveau Réalisme (new realism) movement, although the first time it appeared in print was in ...
decadence
Art history; General art history
Phase or branch of Symbolism in 1880s and 1890s and many artists and writers seen as both. Term came into use 1880s e.g. French journal Le Décadent 1886. Generally refers to ...
De Stijl
Art history; General art history
Name of journal founded in 1917 in Holland by pioneers of abstract art, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. Means style in Dutch. The name De Stijl also came to refer to the ...
data visualisation
Art history; General art history
A term used to describe the visual representation of information, often statistical. In the past this was usually in map or graph form, but computers make it possible to represent ...
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