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  2. Craft - Wikipedia

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    A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers. The traditional term craftsman is nowadays ...

  3. Arts and Crafts movement - Wikipedia

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    The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [ 1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [ 2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the ...

  4. Handicraft - Wikipedia

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    Artesanato Mineiro. A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, clay, etc. One of the oldest handicraft is Dhokra; this is a ...

  5. Leonardo (journal) - Wikipedia

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    The journal, Leonardo, was established in 1968 by artist and scientist Frank Malina in Paris, France. [2] Since 1968, Leonardo has published writings by artists who work with science- and technology-based art media. [3] [4] Journal operations were moved to the San Francisco Bay Area by Frank's son Roger Malina, an astronomer and space scientist ...

  6. Information art - Wikipedia

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    Information art. Information art, which is also known as informatism or data art, is an art form that is inspired by and principally incorporates data, computer science, information technology, artificial intelligence, and related data-driven fields. The information revolution has resulted in over-abundant data that are critical in a wide range ...

  7. History of technology - Wikipedia

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    The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from simple stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s. The term technology comes from the Greek word techne, meaning art and craft, and the word logos ...

  8. Collage - Wikipedia

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    Collage. Collage ( / kəˈlɑːʒ /, from the French: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together"; [ 1]) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pastiche, which is a "pasting" together.)

  9. Google Arts & Culture - Wikipedia

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    Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project) is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world. It utilizes high-resolution image technology that enables the viewer to tour partner organization collections and galleries and explore the ...