In the arts The arts is a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts . Art is a simulation of feelings, expressions, and ideas, which is used as a tool to provoke, inspire, and create those feelings, expresions, and ideas and antiques, attribution is the judgment by experts as to the authorship, date, or other aspect of the origin of a work of art A work of art, artwork, work or art object is a creation, such as an art object, design, architectural piece, musical work, literary composition, performance, film, conceptual art piece, or even computer program that is made and or valued primarily for an "artistic" rather than practical function. This article is concerned with the or cultural artifact A cultural artifact is term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology, and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. Usage of this term encompasses the type of archaeological artifact which is recovered at archaeological sites; however, current objects of. Works "attributed" to an artist are more firmly believed to be theirs than those "ascribed".
Attribution can also mean:
- Attribution (copyright) In copyright law, attribution is the requirement to acknowledge or credit the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Attribution is required by most copyright and copyleft licenses, such as GNUFDL and CC-by, a concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited
- Journalism sourcing Examples of sources include official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, accidents or other events, and people involved with or affected by a news event or issue. According to Shoemaker and McQuail (1994) there are a multitude of factors that tend to condition (or attribution), a journalistic practice of attributing information to its source
- Attribution (psychology) Heider argued that, as an active perceiver of the events, the average person continuously or spontaneously makes causal inferences on why the events occur. Eventually, theses inferences become beliefs or expectations that allow the person to predict and understand the events that they observe and experience. As such, attribution theory is, a concept in psychology whereby people attribute traits and causes to things they observe
- Performance attribution, a technique in quantitative finance for explaining the active performance of a portfolio
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