art historical

adjective

: of or relating to the history of art
art historically adverb

Examples of art historical in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Their work, however, was overlooked for many years by an art historical establishment which certainly was misogynistic. Cath Pound, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024 Extensive research on the hundreds of Jewish artists who have made an art historical impact revealed a surprising nucleus of multifaceted art that addresses machines, instruments, and contraptions. Julia Couzens, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024 In this way, the exhibition offers an alternative model to Euro-American business-as-usual, which often excluded source communities from interpreting their own material culture, leaving that to scholars who tend to view works through a dispassionate art historical lens. Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023 In 2020, the Getty Research Institute acquired Boulton’s archive, which also includes his art historical records and his correspondence with other important Venezuelan Modernists. Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 But in the 21st century, Warhol’s inventive Pop Art market savvy has come to take on a new sense of commercial and art historical relevance, as Leonardo da Vinci has become as synonymous with kitsch as astronomical sums. Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 4 May 2023 Crawford and Bashore, with the help of illustrator Lezio Lopes, looked to the decor of a real-life Sicilian villa to dream up a feverish allegory for The White Lotus resort, replete with hidden meaning, art historical references, and, yes, murderous mischief. Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 3 Nov. 2022 Biographical information about all of these artists appears, along with art historical commentary, in the show’s unusually interesting object labels, as if to remind us that art can be as much a personal expression — of melancholia, among other things — as a formal statement. New York Times, 23 June 2022 Part of what the artists in this show are undermining is the old art historical track that posits this monoculture of excellence in art. Dallas News, 23 June 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of art historical was in 1854

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“Art historical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art%20historical. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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