Gourt > Business > Publishing and Printing > Printing > History > Artistic
By its original and broadest definition, art (from the Latin ars, meaning "skill" or "craft") is the product or process of the effective application of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills; this meaning is preserved in such phrases as "liberal arts" and "martial arts". However, in the modern use of the word, which rose to prominence after 1750, “art” is commonly understood to be skill used to produce an aesthetic result (Hatcher, 1999). Britannica Online defines it as "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others"Britannica Online. By any of these definitions of the word, artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind, from early pre-historic art to contemporary art.
Defining art
How best to define the term “art” is a subject of much contention; many books and journal articles have been published arguing over even the basics of what we mean by the term “art” (Davies, 1991 and Carroll, 2000). Theodor Adorno claimed in 1969 “It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident any more.” (Danto, 2003). Indeed, it is not even clear anymore who has the right to define art. Artists, philosophers, anthropologists, and psychologists all use the notion of art in their respective fields, and give it operational definitions that are not very similar to each others.
Nonetheless we can make some progress towards defining art in its most everyday senses. The first broadest sense of “art” is the one that has stayed closest to the older Latin meaning, which roughly translates to "skill" or "craft", and also from an Indo-European root meaning "arrangement" or "to arrange". In this sense, art is whatever is described as having undergone a deliberate process of arrangement by an agent. A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact, artificial, artifice, artillery, medical arts, and military arts. However, there are many other colloquial uses of the word, all with some relation to its etymology.
More on [ Art ]
Olson joins EPP sales staff - Riceville Recorder
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:03:11 -0000
Olson joins EPP sales staffRiceville Recorder, IA - 2 hours agoBy Dan Evans Julie Olson, of Racine, has joined the sales staff at Evans Publishing & Printing, Inc. of LeRoy, the publishers of the LeRoy Independent, ...
Printing Software streamlines personalized publishing. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:58:50 -0000
Printing Software streamlines personalized publishing.ThomasNet Industrial News Room, NY - Aug 20, 2008Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 makes personalized publishing more practical and broadly accessible while enabling print service providers worldwide to realize ...
Successful Self-Publishing - The Coloradoan
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:41:05 -0000
Successful Self-PublishingThe Coloradoan, CO - 20 hours agoThe workshop will look at different publishing models including print-on-demand publishing (POD), digital printing, and offset printing. ...
Annex launches b-to-b title for bioenergy sector - MastheadOnline
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:10:36 -0000
MastheadOnlineAnnex launches b-to-b title for bioenergy sectorMastheadOnline, Canada - Aug 20, 2008During a world bioenergy conference in Sweden this past May, publisher Scott Jamieson of Annex Publishing & Printing conceived the idea for Canadian Biomass ...
Sudan paper seized for criticising government-owner - Reuters
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:07:46 -0000
Sudan paper seized for criticising government-ownerReuters - 8 hours agoAgents moved in from Monday to Thursday this week to confiscate the broadsheet as it lay piled outside a Khartoum printing press, he added. ...
Champion Announces Record Earnings for 3rd Quarter and First Nine ... - MarketWatch
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:35:38 -0000
Champion Announces Record Earnings for 3rd Quarter and First Nine ...MarketWatch - 21 hours ago... Donihe Graphics (Tennessee); Blue Ridge Printing (North Carolina and Tennessee) and Champion Publishing (West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio). ...
Design - Inge Bruggeman proprietor. An artisitic letterpress printer of books and broadsides.
Meta Description: [ Inge Bruggeman is proprietor of INK-A! Press, fine press artist's books and Textura Letterpress Printing - art and design. ]
Handpress - A site devoted to the handpress. Contains information concerning printing, printers, book art exhibitions, study opportunities and museums.
Meta Description: [ Handpress is the website of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds. ]
| Sep 1995 The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), USA presents a new phenomenon in art. Clad in black tie, art enthusiasts gather in ... | |
| Next Video | |
