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Intro to Art History Midterm

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This term tells the reader what isn't instead of what is, offers implied judgement,
and functions as a catch-all to designate non-European cultures. - -
Reasons why Kelker suggests that Non-Western is " a less than satisfactory
term"

it is better than the previous terms (tribal or primitive) - 📌📌- Why do we use
non-Western if it is a less than satisfactory why use it


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The ancient through modern arts of the indigenous peoples of the Americas,
Africa, Asia, Oceania - - What is Kelkers book about

androcentric and Eurocentric. - 📌📌 - Kelker argues that "Western artistic
biases," combined with "Colonialist attitudes," have given rise to an art history
that is both


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production techniques alongside form and style as well as to discuss the artists
and patrons who created and commissioned these works. - - Kelker aims to
place the arts of the non-Western world in their historical, cultural, and religious
contexts, to discuss


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The date 30,000 BP is approximately equivalent to which of the following?
Choose the best possible answer below - - 28,000 BCE


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The date ninth century BCE is approximately equivalent to which of the
following? Choose the best possible answer below - - 900-801 BCE


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Objects that are comparable in one or more ways (e.g., material, form, date,
geographical origin, etc.) - - To what does the term "comparanda" refer?


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Record or history of an art object's ownership (may include a record of their
origins and/or site where they were excavated) - - When discussing art
objects, what is the term "provenance" used to indicate?

c or ca. -📌📌 - When writing dates, which abbreviation is commonly used to
indicate "approximately" (telling the reader that the date is an approximate one
only)?

4900 BCE - 📌📌- Out of the list:
4900 BCE
1 CE
6000 CE
3000 BCE

, not one of the elite . - 📌📌- While the artist could gain higher social status
through a demonstration of skill, s/he was usually

manual worker - 📌📌- In many parts of the world and through much of history,
the artist was not considered a creative genius but was instead considered a

18th-19th centuries CE - 📌📌- When did the concept of "fine art" develop?
an end in itself - 📌📌- "Fine art" was understood to be...
false -📌📌- "Fine art" was meant to function/to be used. True or false?
true - 📌📌- "Fine art"was meant to be looked at and contemplated. It was
therefore not complete without the presence of a viewer or beholder. True or
false?

One of disinterested contemplation or disinterested interest - 📌📌- In what state
of mind was a viewer supposed to approach and look at art?

it was often made to function - 📌📌- Why doesn't ancient and non-Western art
fit into the category of "fine art"?

Father of Art History and Artistic Biography - 📌📌- Giorgio Vasari is known as
the

Biographies of artists - 📌📌
- He lived in the
16th century CE and published a book of

artist as individual personality. - 📌📌- Vasari's book helped define:
True - 📌📌 - Ancient and non-Western arts can be (and have been) made into
"fine art" by putting them into museums where they can no longer function but
can only be looked at. True or false?

true -📌📌 - Many of the people who actually made / executed art throughout
history are anonymous. t/f


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a branch of Western philosophy concerned with the arts and encompasses the
principles / criteria guiding the making of art - - What are aesthetics


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a form of making which generally produces an object that has a function: such as
something you can wear, or eat or drink from - - How does the Tate
Galleries Art Terms define the term "Craft"?

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