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Article: History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (book reviews)
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- History Today
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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* Both these books focus on the central problem of the interpretation of images by historians, and the application of that interpretation to a reconstruction of the past. Professor Haskell's lengthy and cogently-argued discussion establishes when and how historians divined the importance of images, from the early efforts of antiquarians through to historians at the turn of this century.
By the 1930s, based on the full acceptance of the role of imagery in interpreting the past, the early study of role history viewed iconography or the interpretation of images as one of the two methodological pillars (the other being connoisseurship) which supported the ...
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