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- adjective Of or pertaining to
art history .
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Examples
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The history of Burghley, which was built between 1555 and 1587, is fascinating from both a social and art-historical perspective.
Life at Burghley David Netto 2011
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The display summons Condo's art-historical forebears, including Velazquez, Magritte, Picasso and Rembrandt, artists to whom he is indebted for his brush stroke, textures and subject matter.
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Nobody uses it - it sounds a little uncool, self-conscious and art-historical.
Kris Wilton: Brainly And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones Kris Wilton 2011
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A little boosterism is fine, but in the end, who cares which coast has the art-historical upper hand?
Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun Peter Plagens 2011
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Nobody uses it - it sounds a little uncool, self-conscious and art-historical.
Kris Wilton: Brainly And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones Kris Wilton 2011
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For one, to modern eyes his successors' pictures often pale by comparison to Caravaggio's, interesting though they are in an art-historical kind of way.
A Pathbreaker, Imitated Yet Unsurpassed Willard Spiegelman 2011
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Weinstein, who has shown his work at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York City for nearly two decades, found that his Facebook account was suspended after doing no more than posting the art-historical icon, and despite it being one of the biggest draws of international audiences to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011
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Which means taking a small, often insignificant detail, and treating enlarging those art-historical images just like a photograph—that's why you see the half-tone dots.
For Baldessari, Art Imitates Art Paul Levy 2011
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Weinstein, who has shown his work at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York City for nearly two decades, found that his Facebook account was suspended after doing no more than posting the art-historical icon, and despite it being one of the biggest draws of international audiences to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011
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In John Lanchester's short story "Expectations" in the Jan. 9 New Yorker magazine, his 2007 banker-protagonist's "considered view of the Damien Hirst spot painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus V.A.T."
Spotting the State of Art Paul Levy 2012
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