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Art History: Find Books & Videos

Guide to General Resources in Art History

Streaming Videos - Art

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Analyze art to determine the artwork's historical significance. Art historians consider context, meaning, and value.

This video illustrates the steps and procedures necessary to research a work of art. Learn how to construct a well-supported argument using visual, historical, and textual evidence. 

This video defines the elements of art and principles of design and shows how they are used when describing and analyzing works of art.

This video explains how to identify and apply different methods art historians developed to think about artworks and analyze their meaning, quality, and structures.

This video helps viewers recognize artworks by media and techniques, and identify characteristics of work within key cultural and historical periods as well as styles, movements, and periods within the art world.

This film defines context and its relationship to subject matter, patronage, audience, function, setting, iconography and symbolism in art.

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