ART 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Santa Barbara City College
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In order for art to have a history, we expect not only a timeless quality but also some kind of sequence or development, because that is what history leads us to expect from it. In respect to these kinds of structures for thinking of the past, art history does not fail. In the coming together of these two different threads, we see how history reorders visual experience, allowing it to take a variety of forms. The most famous of these are writing about art history from the point of view of artists usually great men"s. Moreover, we have art historians who have tried to classify the great stylistic epochs in art history, like the renaissance, baroque, or post-impressionism. Each of these patterns can be written independently of the others, and has given art history a backbone. A connoisseur is someone who has specialist knowledge or experience in the fine or decorative arts in a particular field.
