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5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

3. Styles and Periods:commonly accepted terms for stylistic groupings and

distinct chronological periods that are relevant to art, architecture, and the decorative arts

(e.g.,

French, Louis

XIV, Xia, Black-figure, Abstract Expressionist

)

4. Agents: designations of people, groups of people, and

organizations identified by occupation or activity, by physical or mental characteristics, or by social role or condition

(e.g.,

printmakers, landscape architects,

corporations, religious orders

);

also includes living

organisms

5. Activities: areas of endeavor, physical and mental actions, discrete

occurrences, systematic sequences of actions, methods employed toward a certain end, and processes occurring in materials or objects

(e.g.,

archaeology, engineering,

analyzing, contests, exhibiti

ons, running, drawing (image-

making), corrosion

)

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