Art history

Art history

Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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authorial ignorance

Art history; Visual arts

The idea that the entire or true meaning of works of art actually elude their makers.

authorial irrelevance

Art history; Visual arts

The idea that the audience's understanding of the meaning of an art work ought not be effected by an author's biography, social context, or stated intentions.

authorial responsibility

Art history; Visual arts

The idea that the audience has no responsibility for a work's success or failure, but that it rests entirely upon the artist's efforts. This attitude has largely been rejected by ...

autobiographical art

Art history; Visual arts

Art which is made to document or take advantage of events in the artist's life, or which is otherwise especially personal to the artist.

autography

Art history; Visual arts

In graphic arts, the process by which the pen and greasy ink drawing is transferred from paper to stone. In lithography, reproduction of a print on autographic paper.

automatism

Art history; Visual arts

A process of making mechanically, randomly, or by unconscious free association (rather than under the control of a conscious artist), after establishing a set of conditions (such ...