Academic study of objects of art in their historical development.
1The history of the arts gives us abundant examples and warnings in this matter.
2This connecting link is furnished by criticism, which both elucidates the history of the arts, and makes the theory fruitful.
3In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner.
4Moreover, we shall not concern ourselves with the origin or history of the arts further than is needful for an understanding of their general character.
5But Doyle is a surviving victim of one of the greatest cock-ups in the history of the Arts Council.
6Next winter I hope to be able to send you Vertue's History of the Arts, as I have put it together from his collections.
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