‘Introduction. Buildings and objects: the Rococo and after’
As a discipline, art history has tended to privilege fine art and architecture over the so-called decorative or applied arts. In practice, however, the boundaries between designing buildings, producing paintings, and crafting things were not always clearly drawn. The papers published here contribute...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/smentek-intro.pdf |
| Summary: | As a discipline, art history has tended to privilege fine art and architecture over the so-called decorative or applied arts. In practice, however, the boundaries between designing buildings, producing paintings, and crafting things were not always clearly drawn. The papers published here contribute to the ongoing rethinking of the conceptual divisions that have long structured art history’s fields of inquiry. They do so by examining the interrelationships between objects and buildings in the long eighteenth century, the period in which the fine and applied arts were discursively, though not practically, distinguished from one another. |
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| ISSN: | 2042-4752 |