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In addition to being able to recognize the key terms, artists, and artworks in the chapter, you should be able to:
- Talk about the human impulse to create art and support it with examples.
- Understand the rudimentary reasons for studying art and art history.
- Explore the nature, meaning, and importance of "creativity."
- Name the conditions under which art flourishes or declines in a civilization.
- Understand some reasons why artists create works of art.
- Discuss the qualifications for how someone can be considered an artist.
- Discuss the functions that works of art in your local environment fulfill.
- Explain how artists sometimes help to make history, as well as sometimes recording it.
- Understand what factors make a work of art valuable in different ways to different people.
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