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Activist and Socially Engaged Art
Grant Kester
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Activist and Socially Engaged ArtIntroductionThe terms “activist” or “socially engaged” art (used interchangeably throughout this article) refer to ar...
Adornment, Dress, and African Arts of the Body
Victoria L. Rovine
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Adornment, Dress, and African Arts of the BodyIntroductionAfrican clothing and body adornment is a complex subject that incorporates countless media a...
Ancient Egyptian Art
Gay Robins
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Ancient Egyptian ArtIntroductionThe modern Western category of “art,” itself notoriously difficult to define, had no direct equivalent in ancient Egyp...
Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) Art
James Farmer
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) ArtIntroductionThe Ancient Pueblo (aka, “Anasazi”) tradition ranged between c. 500 bce and 1600 ce in the American Southwest....
Angkor and Environs
Dawn F. Rooney
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Angkor and EnvironsIntroductionAngkor is the name of an ancient kingdom and capital of the Khmer Empire in northwestern Cambodia that flourished from ...
Art and Archaeology of the Bronze Age in China
Robert Thorp
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Art and Archaeology of the Bronze Age in ChinaIntroduction“China” here designates much but not all of China Proper or Inner China, terrain controlled ...
Art and Architecture in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary
Zsombor Jékely
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Art and Architecture in the Medieval Kingdom of HungaryIntroductionThe Kingdom of Hungary was established in 1000 with the coronation of Stephen as th...
Art and Propaganda
Evonne Levy
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Art and PropagandaIntroductionThe rise of the propaganda production in World War I coincided with art history’s consolidation as a discipline. Immedia...
Art of Medieval Iberia
Tom Nickson
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Art of Medieval IberiaIntroductionIberia’s medieval history has traditionally been understood in relation to a series of key events: 711–714, when Mus...
Art of the Crusader Period in the Levant
Richard A. Leson
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Art of the Crusader Period in the LevantIntroductionHow to characterize the art and architecture of those Western settlers who arrived in the Levant i...
Art of the Dogon
Kate Ezra, Jessica Hurd
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Art of the DogonIntroductionThe Dogon people live in one of West Africa’s most spectacular landscapes, a row of cliffs known as the Bandiagara Escarpm...
Art of the Mamluks
Karen R. Mathews
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Art of the MamluksIntroductionThe Mamluk dynasty (1250–1517) was a unique political power in the eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages. The su...
Art of the Plains Peoples
Steven Leuthold
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Art of the Plains PeoplesIntroductionPlains Indian art is a varied subject with a long history of scholarship and collecting both by private individua...
Artemisia Gentileschi
Sheila ffolliott
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Artemisia GentileschiIntroductionIn the expanding scholarship on Artemisia Gentileschi (b. 1593–d. c. 1654), accounts of her accomplishments and succe...
Arts of Senegambia
Peter Mark
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Arts of SenegambiaIntroductionSenegambia, strictly speaking, comprises the nations of Senegal and The Gambia, although southern Senegal and the adjace...
Arts of the Pacific Islands
Susan Cochrane
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Arts of the Pacific IslandsIntroductionThis article treats the arts of the Pacific Islands, often referred to in literature as Oceanic art. In geograp...
Assyrian Art and Architecture
Paul Collins, Talah Anderson
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Assyrian Art and ArchitectureIntroductionAncient Assyrian art and architecture has been the subject of scholarly interest, analysis, and debate since ...
Australian Aboriginal Art
Greg Lehman, Susan Lowish, Ian McLean
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Australian Aboriginal ArtIntroductionOutside Australia, “Australian art” is often taken to mean Indigenous art produced in remote regions of the conti...
Aztec Empire, Art of the
Cecelia F. Klein
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Art of the Aztec Empire ...
Babylonian Art and Architecture
Michael Seymour
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Babylonian Art and Architecture Introduction Babylonian art and architecture are inseparable from other Mesopotamian studies. Both the cultura...
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