Example sentences of "understand [art] history " in BNC.

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1 As with de Santillana 's innovatory essay Kemp 's book not only offers new ways of understanding the history of science and the history of art but it also raises a host of historical and historiographical questions .
2 Some of that healing lies in understanding the history of both her own ( Western , Christian , dualist ) culture and of the construction of gender .
3 I see this change in direction as a development and broadening of the experience of understanding the history of women .
4 Although this poses a very particular problem for understanding the history of Gaul in the fifth century , similar evidential difficulties continue into the Merovingian period .
5 The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English .
6 And where does that leave us historians , who are not only being told that only blacks and whites , or Basques , or Croats , can properly understand the history of these respective groups , but to invent the sort of history that they want to ‘ understand ’ ?
7 This brings me back to my main theme , the need for more concentrated and co-ordinated work on manufacture and distribution , for without it , we will never fully understand the history of the development of the coarse wares , stylistically or chronologically .
8 It is necessary for contemporary women artists so that they can understand the history and the specificity of their positioning as artists who are women , with specific social and cultural locations in terms of class , race and sexuality , as opposed to the stereotypical displacement as ‘ women artists ’ .
9 Renaissance , baroque , rococo and Biedermeier swirled around in our minds as we grew to understand the history of the Habsburg Empire in a tour that was , as far as possible , chronologically arranged .
10 In order to understand the history of capitalist societies one must look not just to their structures , but also to the balance of power between classes and the way this power is exercised .
11 For example , in order to understand the history of physics , we have to know the concept or problematic of physics in order to establish what an event in physics consists of .
12 In order to understand the history of so-called standard English pronunciation , therefore , we need to assume — paradoxically — that there is no such thing .
13 It is in the perception of these changes that we begin to understand the history of the landscape as a whole , the Iron Age village , the Roman estate , the Saxon trade , the medieval fields , the eighteenth-century agriculture and twentieth-century industrialisation .
14 Assuming you understand the history text , you must then relate this information into the background context of your knowledge of the subject matter .
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