Look. Study of the object. Look at the object in person, at its original site, in its original lighting conditions, etc. Documents. What evidence about the object survives. Visual sources X-rays/infrared photographs Preliminary drawings o...
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A curator assembles works of art for display at a museum or gallery. This person needs to know the history of art in order to understand the importance of the works being selected and the context in which they were created. In this way the ...
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No. An art practitioner. I studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam. Then stayed up in Sheffield and worked with a studio group called S1 and began organising exhibitions with my peers. That's how I became interested in exhibition making.
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Art is a wonderful primary source from my period, although we can never know exactly what people thought when they saw it. Nonetheless, art is one of the ways in which you are in the same world with people who were not literate. It puts you...
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Perhaps it has to do with my parents and upbringing. My father was a government servant in the old Bombay State, which covered Maharashtra, Gujarat, Nagpur, Vidharba, and so on. During holidays, we would choose one district and drive throug...
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I would check universities, and museum websites for the answer, however with just a masters I would imagine that it wouldn't be too much higher than 60 or 70 thousand at max. Art historians tend to be in influx these days.
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Discusses the role of visual images in the classification of art objects and the research needs of art historians in the context of the design of current printed resources and online databases in this discipline. The topics covered include ...
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