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⇑Classical Art and Archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: arts

Qualification: MA

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

Master of Arts (MA)

University website: www.rhul.ac.uk

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. In North America, archaeology is considered a sub-field of anthropology, while in Europe archaeology is often viewed as either a discipline in its own right or a sub-field of other disciplines.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.

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Art

The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

Eric Kandel, The Age of Insight (2012)

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Art

I am willing to let it rest on the determination of every reader, whether the pleasure which he has received from these effects of calm and luminous distance be not the most singular and memorable of which he has been conscious... It is not then by nobler form, it is not by positiveness of hue, it is not by intensity of light... that this strange distant space possesses its attractive power. But there is one thing that it has, or suggests, which no other object of sight suggests in equal degree, and that is—Infinity. ...No work of any art, in which this expression of infinity is possible, can be perfect or supremely elevated, without it.

John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1860) Vol. 2, Ch. V

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Art

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour (1598), Act I, scene 1.

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