There is no single,linear,progressive history of western art history;rather there are several parallel traditions of writing about art,some of them truly historical.Indeed,it is hard to separate the history of art history from the history of art theory;the historiographic boundary in relation to the art history is somewhat blurred. Never theless,if we adopt the working definition that art history is a historical account of the existence and form of works of art and if we bear some important contextual points in mind, a historiographic analysis of art writing is possible.
The first necessary cognizance is of the common ground between writing about art and writing about other historical phenomena,for example,the adoption by art history of models used by historians to describe religion or diplomacy;second,anawareness of the links between historical writing and the current practice of art itself(Gaehtgens 1990 and Belting1987);third, a recognition of the actual state of knowledge,in the4 senses of access or archaeology,for example,how much of an artist’s work is known and available for study, what is the state of its conservation and restoration; fourth, an awareness of the role of technology,to capture a memory of a work of art, by sketching or using a camera, to reproduce a work of art or overcome the difficulty of understanding colour or paint via a line engraving (Haskell 1987 ;1976 ;168ff. ;Lloyd 1975 ); fifth, an appreciation of the political context for historical discussions about art, since its high symbolic potential,understood since aniquity, means that art’s history is not written in ideologically neutral terms.
It was not until the time of the greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history,emerged.The compilations of the logographoi in the 6th century B.C were organized records.It is with some justice,however,that Herodotus is considered the first historian,because in his work appears the conscious desire to record all the significant and noteworthy circumstances surrounding aset of events and motivating the action of people in thgose events.Herodotus was remarkable, too for the scope of his interest,he recorded myths, describe and customs,and made speculation .He used much unverified information, however, and failed to differentiate clearly between fact and fable.
The second great greek historian ,Thuydides, was of a different stamp.In writing the history of the Peloponnesian war he limited himself to matters of staete and war; he tried to establish chronology and fact with some exactitude, avoiding the digression of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful , he wrote a grave work,conveying the lessons he drew from his story. The third of the great Greek historians,Xenophon was more devoted to the purely storytelling aspect of history.
In the foregoing account we have discussed the beginning and the development of historiographical tradition in medieval western world. In medieval Europe,the writing of history began with church histories. These histories had aconcept of time which was changeless because it was the divine time.Gradually,,however ,there was a change in the concept of time.Influenced by the pre-Christian tradition of history writing the historian began to think of time in more temporal terms,as a measurable sequences .The change in thinking made possible the use of chronology to write history. Contacts with other regions such as the Byzantine and the Arab world brought different influences from which also the medieval European historiography benefited.
WESTERN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Khawthlang ram art history hi thuhmun,in ang tlang a awm lo ,art history ziah dan tam tak a awm avangin khawi hi nge art history dik tak ni a, khawi hi nge alem ni ang tih thliar hran hi thil harsa tak a ni.Khami art kha ahun lai a thil thleng tak tak an ziah a nih leh nih loh hriat nan chuan historiographic analysis atih theih a ni. A tih theih dan te chu:
A hriat theih dan hmasa ber chu lem ziak ah khan khami hun lai a thil thleng kha alang tel em tih a ni .Entirnan-Historian in alem ziah khan khami hun lai sakhua emaw politics lam hawi alantir em? Pahnihna ah chuan hman lai a an lem ziah dan leh tunlaia an milem ziah dan in inzawmna aneih leh neh loh hriatna hi ani.A hriat theih dan pathumna ah chuan lem ziak tu kha hriat ahlawh em??A lem ziah te kha engzat chiah nge zir chian atan awm?Dah that tlak a awm em?Palina ah chuan a lem ziah emaw thlalaka athla lo lake maw a ni.Hei hian lem ziahna rawng emaw a chei nan a rawng an hman hriatchian lohna lak ata min veng thei ani.A tawp ber ah chuan a ziak tuin a hun lai politics a ngaihdan a ziak lang tel tur a ni.Hei hian a ziaktu khan pawm zawng/ ngaihdan nei lem lo a ziak ani lo tih a hriat theih a ni.
Greek- ho hun lai atangin thil thleng felfai taka ziak a dahthat hi an lo ching chho tan a.Herodotus a hi Historian hmasa ber ang a ngaih a ni, a chhan chu ahun lai a thil pawimawh leh hriat tur zawng zawng ziaka a dah that vang a ni.Mahse information verify loh tam tak a ziah avangin a thu ziah hi a lem nge a tak tih thliarhran a har hle.
Greek historian lar tak Tydides vet hung chuan thu dik leh belhchian ngam chauh ziah a tum luat ah Peloponnesian indona tih aziah lai khan khawpuia thil thleng leh indona lampang chauh a ziak a ,nimahsela a hlawhtling lem lo .Greek historian tho Xenophon vet hung chuan history hi thawnthu ziah dan kal hmangin a ziak thin.
A tir lamah khan engtin nge khawthlang ramin history an ziah tan dan leh hma an lo sawn chhoh zel dank an sawi tawh a.Medieval Europe ah chuan church history an ziak hmasa bera, heng history hian hun concept a nei a,he church history ziah hun lai hi hun thinghlim a nih avangin hun hi thlak theih a ni lo.Nimahsela, hun concept chu a danglam tial tial a, hun chu thil the theih angina ngaih chhoh a lo ni ta a,Hemi a ngaihdan a danglamna lo thleng avang hian hun chu history ziah nan a thil pawimawh deuh a lo ni ta a.Sakhaw dang Byzantine leh Arab te hian Medieval Europe ho history ziah nan a tanpui nasa hle a, European history hian hlawkna tam tak a neih phah a ni.
* Reference:
1). Bentley, Michael, 'Companion to Historiogrphy', Park Square, Milton Park, Adingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN,1997.
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