It could be said that Sir Ernst has spent his life moving between the two: he made it a mission to put the study of art on a scientific footing.

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In 1998 she took on the art establishment by authoring a study asserting that many of Duchamp's "found objects" weren't found at all but assembled by the artist (scholars aren't certain).

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In his youth, Du was a student of music and drawing, and in 1986 went on to study and teach painting at the Southwest Art School in Sichuan, where he remains to this day.

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After completing an MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in 1994, Stoner, 30, went on to study at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and is currently studying at the British School in Rome.

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Writing in Newsday, Pearson condemns Harvard's Du Bois Institute for housing a hip hop archive because its scholars deem the art form and culture on which it rests to be worthy of study.

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Fernando Checa, a leading art historian and director of the Prado Museum in Madrid, recently published a study on Philip II as a Renaissance prince.

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"It is a study of the evolution of skateboard art through the actual art itself and the technology used to apply the art on the skateboard, " he said.

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