How to Write Art History?

"...Art history teaches you to think differently. It teaches you to ask interesting questions, to reject established answers and conventional wisdom, to look beyond surfaces and obvious images, and to see nuances. It helps you develop your skills in visual analysis and critical reading; it supports you in constructing objective arguments and expressing your ideas compellingly in writing and orally... Art history opens a unique door to the past. Because history cannot be told solely through documents, texts, and words. Human life is short, but human creations are lasting, and these give us an idea of what past lives were like... To see a great example of human creativity, to be overcome with happiness, anger, or sadness, surprises you. As you trace the artist's hand in a chisel mark on a stone surface or in a loop of a weaving, you feel the sense of humanity they carried in your heart..."