[NetBehaviour] Art Words: Fairholt

[Mark Hancock]

Reading this is strangely addictive. I think you could sell it to record companies for band names. I want to start a drone trio called, Black-Lead Pencils.

M


On 16 Aug 2013, at 22:25, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> One of my current projects is assembling lists of art-related words from
> various sources:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/robmyers/art-word-lists
> 
> The first is from the archive.org scan of "A dictionary of terms in art"
> by F. W. Fairholt Fairholt (1814-1866):
> 
> https://gitorious.org/robmyers/art-word-lists/blobs/master/fairholt-dictionary/terms-edited.txt
> 
> I scripted some of the process, but it still took a couple of days to
> proof read and correct the output. What interested me was how the idea
> of what art is has changed since then. The iconography is Roman, Greek
> and Christian, and etching and pottery get as much coverage as oil
> painting. There's also a lot about the architecture of churches, and
> only two or three galleries mentioned.
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