ABSTRACT
The ways in which the artistic manifestations may be studied are diverse, but they may be primarily grouped under two distinct heads, the philosophical and metaphysical, where the enquirer is primarily concerned with the basic reasons for art's existence. With the mental processes that underlie it, and the analytic and historical where he is concerned with art's superficial character and with the numerous problems relating to its development. The visual arts are concerned, the term art-history' has now been well-nigh universally adopted as a portmanteau term to embrace the various aspects of study and the sundry routes of approach. At certain periods the artist seems to have been concerned above anything else with a direct record of history. The process of reconstruction is more properly the concern of the archaeologist than the art-historian, for the former must take into account every facet of man's activity, whereas the art-historian is only concerned with works that are distinguished by some aesthetic significance.
