ART HISTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does art history mean? 

• ART HISTORY (noun)
  The noun ART HISTORY has 1 sense:

1. the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

  Familiarity information: ART HISTORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ART HISTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("art history" is a kind of...):

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "art history"):

iconology (the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms))