| The history of art is a discipline of social science that studies the evolution of art through time.Understood as any activity or product made by the man with purpose aesthetic or communicative , through expressing ideas , emotions or, in general, a worldview , the art uses various resources, such as plastics , language , sound and mixed . Art history as an academic discipline and institutional environment ( museums , art market , university departments , editorials ) is usually restricted to the so-called visual arts and plastic (essentially painting , sculpture and architecture ), while others are more arts specific subject matter of clearly defined disciplines such as history of literature or music history , which are all given attention by the so-called cultural history or cultural history, along with the stories focused on sectors other manifestations of thought, as the history of science , the history of philosophy or history of religions . Knowledge fields closely related to the history of art are the aesthetic and art theory. |
