Art History I / Design and the Arts of the Object
Practice question · Sort into groups

Sort each characteristic by whether it attached to the FINE arts or the APPLIED arts under the old division.

Groups: Fine arts · Applied arts

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  1. The division shows in training, attribution and how the history was written.
  2. Anonymity and style-history go together.
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Fine arts: Taught in academies, Signed by a named individual, Written about as a history of individuals

Applied arts: Taught through apprenticeship, Frequently anonymous workshop production, Written about as a history of styles

Why

The third pair is the one with the longest consequences. A history written as a sequence of named individuals cannot easily accommodate workshop production, so the practices on the right were not merely ranked lower, they were largely written about in a different way, and often not written about at all.

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