
Methodologies of Art
Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been ''read'' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work''s perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its ...
Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been ''read'' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work''s perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its ...