Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

1. Associated Concepts:abstract concepts and phenomena

(e.g.,

beauty,

balance, connoisseurship, metaphor, freedom, socialism, Buddhism

)

2. Physical Attributes: perceptible or measurable characteristics of

materials and artifacts

(size and shape, chemical

properties of materials, qualities of texture and hardness, and features such as surface ornament and color; e.g.,

strapwork, borders, round, waterlogged,

brittleness)

Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute.

Fa c e t s o f t h e A AT