There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings of another. A work of art, therefore, is a fact of consciousness quite as much as it is an object existing beside us in...
A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.
its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times a...
The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.
