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Article: Art Theory, Criticism, and Historiography
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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ART THEORY, CRITICISM, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
Questions that remain relevant and disputed today in art history and theory were first explored at length during the early modern period: What is art? How do images communicate differently from words? What is artistic genius? How does art orig
inate in and reveal an artist's character? How does art change with time and place? How does art reflect society and construct its collective identity? How does one date and attribute paintings?
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In 1924 Julius von Schlosser published the bibliographic bible on the literature of art from antiquity to the nineteenth century:
Die Kunstliteratur.
It was not the first free-standing bibliography
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