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