noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
18th-/19th- etc century art/music/literature
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Nothing compares with Florence's beautiful 15th-century architecture.
a film/art/music etc critic
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He became the chief music critic for the Herald Tribune.
a film/music/dance/arts festival
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The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
a language/art/design etc course
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The school runs ten-week language courses three times a year.
an art collection
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the National Gallery’s art collection
an art gallery
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a guide to the city's museums and art galleries
an art/music/drama college
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The Music College was founded in 1869.
an arts centre (= for art, music, theatre, film etc )
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Shall we go to the concert at the arts centre on Saturday?
an arts degree (= in a subject that is not science )
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She has an arts degree from Sussex University.
Art Deco
art director
art form
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Music is quite unlike any other art form.
art gallery
art house
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art house films
Art Nouveau
art theft
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Robbers stole paintings worth £25 million in the French Riviera’s biggest art theft.
art/literary/military etc historian
arts and crafts (= things produced by artists and craftsmen or women )
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an exhibition of Indian arts and crafts
arts cinema
Associate of Arts
black art
car/antique/art etc dealer
clip art
conceptual art
contemporary art/music/dance
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Each year there is a contemporary music festival in November.
fine art
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Can photography be considered fine art?
industrial arts
liberal arts
martial art
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a martial arts expert
Master of Arts
mastered the art of
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I never quite mastered the art of walking in high heels.
objet d'art
op art
performance art
performing arts
pop art
the arts scene
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Britain has a lively contemporary arts scene.
the arts/sports council
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The exhibition has been funded by the Arts Council.
the sports/arts/financial etc pages (= the part of a newspaper that deals with sport, art etc )
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He only ever reads the sports pages.
visual arts
work of art
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That cake’s a real work of art!
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Promoting a fund has become something of a black art .
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We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art.
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Or a man who meddled in the black arts ?
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He also travels to black art galleries, black bookstores, even a black-owned florist shop.
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And it's a kind of black art anyway - everyone did a bit differently.
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And other black arts organizations had willingly shared their patron lists.
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But not all their black arts could save them now that the full strength of Ulthuan was brought to bear.
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They obsess about it, the black art of stealing elections.
contemporary
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Does the contemporary art scene in Glasgow affect your painting?
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Feb. 16-18 with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art .
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You see, this exhibit examines the use of the flag in contemporary art .
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Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
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One characteristic of contemporary art history has been its extensive use of non-art-historical texts.
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What is your opinion of the current state of contemporary art , in this country and internationally?
fine
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Confined to the fine arts , this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance.
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Creativity in an exemplary fine arts curriculum is also encouraged.
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He came to Teesside from Newcastle where he ran a fine art print workshop.
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I create fine art from found objects, and also work extensively in faux stone.
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Ken Done popular art; fine art.
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Modern art is directed at a public largely untutored in the fine arts amidst a rapid expansion of the means of communication.
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This is a fine art and the rewards are considerable.
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I am no art historian but I appreciate fine works of art, and would just like to make two points.
great
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There is a sense in which the greatest art in conducting is to know when one should not conduct.
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And the great Tretyakov art gallery may have its utilities shut off for nonpayment of bills.
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Naturally, the public display of great works of art led to a demand for imitations for enjoyment by wealthy individuals.
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Despite the war, there was a great deal of art activity in New York during the fall of 1918.
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To be firm and remain courteous is the great art , especially when you feel threatened or are greatly provoked.
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Going to the library and the bookshops, seeing plays, hearing concerts, looking at great art ?
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But the car has inspired no great architecture and no great art .
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You can escape if you answer puzzles, games and questions about the great works of art hanging on the walls.
high
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The popular art of the era shared a great many subjects with its high art counterparts.
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The show, which opens Friday, is an exploration of the distinction between low art and high art.
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Contemporary high art was at the same time popular art.
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This is not a high art , like painting or sculpture.
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However, its high art pretensions are hinted at by the epic tone of its title.
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The sprawling figures of men and serpents and lizards can only be viewed from high above: art for the gods.
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In this sense too, popular art was closer to the dominant ethos of the age than its high art counterparts.
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Like their comrades from earlier wars, many GIs developed and refined the craft of scrounging into a high art .
liberal
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The setting is a Vermont liberal arts college where Sarah Matthews is dean of students.
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In the public sector, many managers have liberal arts degrees in public administration or one of the social sciences.
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Others are not employed directly by the ruling class and work in the liberal arts and service professions.
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Students at the baccalaureate level also are paying more attention to applied fields of study than to a general liberal arts education.
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The first is to promote liberal arts higher education, both at general degree and sub-degree levels.
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I was brimming with hopes for obtaining a good liberal arts education, then training in journalism.
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There probably never has been a year that employers have knocked down the doors to hire liberal arts graduates.
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In certain respects City is very much a traditional liberal arts / professional college.
martial
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Even fully fit he would have stood little chance against the oriental, who was an expert in martial arts combat.
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A light, bouncy martial arts comedyadventure tailor-made for Chris Farley, the unlikeliest ninja of them all.
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It became compulsory for all young men to learn martial arts .
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The notion of apprenticeship as an almost religious vocation survives best, oddly, in martial arts movies like Bloodsport on Showtime.
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There is an increasing number of KungFu, Judo and martial arts clubs attended by even young children.
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He takes Aikido martial arts classes, plays tennis and racquetball and occasionally strikes up a romance.
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All the martial arts , hard and soft, aim at a non-aggressive state of harmony.
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Chow Yun Fat stars as a master of the Wudan school of martial arts .
modern
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It is the largest modern art museum in the world.
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The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art , from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.
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Meanwhile the home of modern art appears to be London.
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And when they pick apart the history of modern art , they attack modern art's most powerful institution.
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In fact, it seems that the best modern art exhibitions are going on out there in various institutions and building lobbies.
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Such subtleties should be one ambition of the museum of modern art .
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A museum of modern art would mean that we would have to up-grade our holdings and get more important twentieth-century works.
visual
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This exhibition examines his impact not only on the visual arts but also on literature and science.
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What Albers did for Black Mountain as a community emphasizing the visual arts , Olson did for it as a literary community.
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He also argues that, in its turn, the Scientific Revolution had some effect on the visual arts .
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In these senses this show contributes to contemporary radical perspectives within the visual arts , especially as contextualised within the gallery.
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A general introduction to the practice of the visual arts .
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Involvement in the visual arts is one way in for many young people today.
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Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics.
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Despite her irritating affectations, she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts .
■ NOUN
critic
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As for working art critics , their newspapers need reviews of every sort of exhibition, whether modern or historical.
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Here, in 1989, an exhibit of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe aroused the wrath of art critics in Congress.
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Incidentally, the good art critic should be the reader's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices.
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Marriage to a middle-aged art critic who has turned dealer.
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An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion, perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument.
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Times art critic Christopher Knight contributed to this report.
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The art critic is thus bound to consider with care what standards of comparison should be used.
dealer
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To think so was to be conned by the art dealers .
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When asked, archivists and art dealers shrug and allude to the war.
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Gave ten thousand dollars for it to a little mustachioed froggy art dealer on the Boulevard Haussmann.
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Larry's a builder, Robin's an art dealer , a refined, elegant and sensitive man.
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The house was occupied as the London residence of an art dealer .
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He decided to start an art dealers organisation, and he asked me to help.
deco
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Emberton continued to design shops in the fashionable art deco style, for Lotus and Delta shoes and others.
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There are more than a few furniture galleries, ranging from traditional to art deco to contemporary.
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The concert hall itself reminds one playfully of reproduction art deco and is also acoustically first-class and adaptable.
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High-energy, friendly salon with Latin flavor and art deco chandeliers.&038;.
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The art deco cinema was closed; a round pile of elegance put off for good.
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Their B &038; B is within walking distance of the art deco Filberg Lodge with its delightful nine-acre park.
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The beautiful, elegant art deco Hoover building on the A4 is a supermarket.
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But the fact is all I can afford is this third-floor studio with an art deco shower.
director
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So an illustration may offer far wider possibilities for the art director to achieve special effects and a distinctive style.
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When he awoke, he found himself in San Francisco -- as the art director of a ballet magazine.
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Phil Bicker, our art director , never goes home. 9.
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Do not let your editor or art director unduly influence you.
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Leaver, then camping out on Oz art director Jonathan Goodchild's floor, joined the staff.
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It aims to give writers and art directors a thorough grounding of the advertising business and valuable first-hand experience.
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For some years now, writer and art director have been considered as equal partners working closely together.
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A good production person must keep up with every development and ideally acquaint the art directors with every one as well.
form
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To avoid simultaneous borrowing and depositing you should monitor how accurate your forecasting is, without turning this into an art form .
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Animation is one of the most labor-intensive art forms .
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Nicholas Cruz simply drools over the youngster who has made boxing an art form .
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Making music is an art form , believe it or not.
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At its core is a unique collection of books on various non-Western art forms donated by Tàpies himself.
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Guided by an unlikely visionary named Walt, the artists at Disney did more than create an enduring new art form .
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These old properties represent an age when craftsmanship in building reached an art form .
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But this is hair-splitting as an art form .
gallery
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Roland felt wakeful and misplaced, as though he was in an art gallery or a surgeon's waiting-room.
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Its unique folk art has been featured by the Smithsonian Museums and other prominent art galleries throughout the U.S.
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Most of all, Mahoney didn't look like the sort of man who would work in an art gallery .
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The complex, built in 1926, includes 360-seat and 99-seat theaters, a small 40-seat workspace and an art gallery .
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He would meet Mischa and the others in London at the exhibition in the art gallery .
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The street is dotted with pricey eateries, art galleries , boutiques and hair salons.
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Dunbar was to run the art gallery attached to the shop, Miles would take care of the books.
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A check for $ 3, 246 to a Scottsdale art gallery for a painting.
historian
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Her ladyship always took advice from art historians before she would even change as much the piping on a cushion.
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One of us is the granddaughter who rescued the paintings from a warehouse room; the other, a young art historian .
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She was extremely generous to aspiring young art historians .
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Deciding where is the beginning can be a trouble for an art historian .
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Tomás Llorens, art historian and Simon Marcháan, lecturer in Aesthetics.
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This is one aspect that art historian and critic Deborah Cherry will be taking up in the next issue.
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Martin, formerly editor of Arts magazine, is a trained art historian .
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Do you feel that the language problem is a fundamental stumbling block for art historians ?
history
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He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history .
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Pretty meaty stuff for an art history major who formerly knew squat about the squabble.
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Their works did not hang in major public collections, nor were they subsequently included within mainstream art history .
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Even students in art history and philosophy are getting hired by management consultants, Sanborn said.
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Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level.
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Should art works be at the centre of art history ?
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Traditional art history would include Bonnard for his technical innovations and largely marginalise Rodchenko for his politics and photography.
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Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history .
market
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The precious place of the nude was bolstered by the economics of the art market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Those were great days for the art market .
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And what of the broader issues: 1997, Hong Kong and the art market ?
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When the art market went crazy, the value of the little Courbet just kept climbing.
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And how has Cologne fared in the contraction of the art market worldwide?
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Several of those who shared those discussions are now big names in the art market .
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Such catalogues were important to scholarship and also to the art market .
performance
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A programme of performance art to be announced with this exhibition.
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The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art .
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Garner knows about the challenge of performance art .
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No matter how he strutted and screamed, the end result was more like watching performance art than hearing a concert.
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Some performance art does contain gratuitous violence.
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The materials of Fluxus artists were mainly ephemeral or paper-based, or centred on performance art , presenting problems for exhibition organisers.
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The second is intensely combative performance art , and just about self-financing.
school
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I was too defiant to return to such an art school , so cramped, so bunged up with petty authority.
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I went to art school too.
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I went to art school when I was 15, I was the youngest.
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It has a full-fledged performing arts school , from Grades 4-12, with an enrollment of 550 boys and girls.
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So I packed in art school .
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But once in art school , I soon discovered that art, too, was a game.
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As well as the teds there were always a few young art school types who were interested in the idea of teddy boy style.
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Minton, assisted by students from various London art schools , supervised the decorations.
student
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In Montparnasse artists and art students met each other in the cafés and at the life class and in the little restaurants.
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A customer who turned out to be a Harvard art student had dropped off film to be developed.
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Before that he was a successful history and art student at the De Montfort University in Leicester.
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There were confrontations between the art students and the athletes.
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Cor, he said, this is almost like being an art student again.
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The basic issue was compulsory complementary and contrasting studies for arts students .
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His first wife, Betty, was a fellow art student .
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Bright 16-year-olds abandon all but two or three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread, and arts students maths-blind.
work
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The art works that would be modern art are defined and subjected to validations of a specific kind.
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But Langford has more to say about the cooking than he does about the art works .
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The language, not just the art work of comics changed then too.
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Scattered among the various art works in McMullen's office are his numerous ribbons and trophies.
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Despite much improvement in pencil and art work there had been none in reading and other school work.
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Who owns the reproduction rights and profits for a piece of art work paid for with public and private money?
world
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It has become a minor occasion in the art world .
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Although Margarett was showing in New York, she had become a presence in the Boston art world .
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We soon lost our importance as far as the art world was concerned.
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What a model for the art world .
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A first-rate biography might have reminded the art world of his unique eloquence.
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But in the art world it's not allowed to be mentioned.
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Henry Fitzhugh aims for a deliberate mix of obscure or up-and-coming artists with the glitterati of the art world .
■ VERB
master
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I also have never wanted to master the art of stiletto-wearing.
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It strikes me that Tommy has already mastered the art of being a toady.
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Loved for his big glasses and silly grin, he mastered the art of playing guitar while walking in circles.
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Their written petition gives some indication as to how much the Jesuits had mastered the delicate art of memorializing the emperor.
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If you value your trees, you will take pains to master this art .
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She is afraid of the bathtub and has never mastered the art of taking a shower.
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Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing - and drawing the figure especially.
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Once you master the arts of reflection, understanding, and resolution, perspective and point of view will follow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Bachelor of Arts/Science/Education etc
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A Bachelor of Education course lasts three or four years.
Master of Arts/Science/Education etc
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He addressed more than 100 businessmen studying for a Master of Arts Business Administration exam.
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Miss Sue Lawley, journalist and broadcaster. Master of Arts.
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Miss Tessa Sanderson, international athlete. Master of Science.
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Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree.
Renaissance art/furniture/architecture etc
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Little Renaissance furniture survives intact, and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding.
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That year, several superb works of Renaissance art were sold without publicity to private investors.
Romantic art/literature etc
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One of the characteristics of Romantic literature is the interaction or rapport between man and nature.
get sth down to a fine art
make/turn sth into an art form
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Ronald Reagan turned it into an art form.
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To avoid simultaneous borrowing and depositing you should monitor how accurate your forecasting is, without turning this into an art form.
the fine arts
the performing arts
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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art class
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Art critics were not impressed by the collection.
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an art exhibit
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Ben was always good at art .
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I studied art at school.
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Is a pile of bricks in a museum really art ?
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Many people find it difficult to understand abstract art .
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Phil has turned sandwich-making into an art .
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The statue is a fine example of early Christian art .
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There was an exhibition of Adams' paintings at the Museum of Modern Art .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Creative collaboration occurs in other arts as well.
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Hamilton, who was a great student of folk art , was driving us in the school van.
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He gave art an openly political meaning and did not appreciate the artist as an individual dissenting voice.
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I could tour it just like a normal album but I could use the art circuit as kind of a base audience.
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Nelson was hired this school year to help infuse art into the school's curriculum.
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Starling was not only posted on art , he had read books.
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The self-defence side of the art is perhaps self-explanatory.
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Too late for art and too late for the denial of art.