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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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acid migration
Art history; Visual arts
The transfer of an acid from an acidic material to a less acidic or pH neutral material, most often from one with which it is in contact. Since acid can cause certain materials, ...
acrolith
Art history; Visual arts
An ancient Greek sculpture in which the head and arms and feet were made of marble or some other stone. Greek for "stone-ended." At first an acrolith was considered to be a wooden ...
Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI)
Art history; Visual arts
This is an international association whose members are over 210 art and creative material manufacturers. Founded in 1940, ACMI is an authority on art and craft materials. Its ...
analog-to-digital conversion
Art history; Visual arts
The electronic process of changing continuously varying wave-form data into digital quantities that represent the magnitude of the data at the moment the conversion is made. The ...
analogy
Art history; Visual arts
A comparison between things based upon observations of a significant similarity between them, while acknowledging that they are otherwise dissimilar. Makers of analogies generally ...
analytic
Art history; Visual arts
Having to do with analysis — dividing into elemental parts or basic principles. Reasoning or acting from a perception of the parts and their interrelationships. In philosophy, the ...
anamorphosis
Art history; Visual arts
An image that appears distorted, because it is constructed on an elongated grid, rendering it unintelligible until it is viewed from a specific, extremely oblique point of view or ...
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