Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines (hierarchy name)
4. disciplines (concept)
5. humanities
6. [arts and related disciplines]
7. arts-related disciplines
8. art history

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to an emerging interdisciplinary field which seeks to integrate scientific study of art into the practice of art history; and the interpretative methods of the art historian into the conservation lab. An outgrowth of the subdiscipline of art history once known as Technical Studies, the field has recently established itself within graduate program curricula.