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Art History after Modernism, by Hans Belting. Translated by Caroline Saltzwedel with Kenneth Northcott. Chicago, November 2003. $65 cloth, $19.95 paper

In his earlier The End of Art History? (1983, published in English in 1987), Hans Belting proposed that the advent of postmodernism in the visual arts had changed the rules for any plausible historical account of art. Art History after Modernism (which appeared in its original German edition in 1995) updates the author's thoughts on art historical practice. Art and art history are both alive and well at the end of the millennium, according to Belting, but find themselves standing together at a crossroads. The history of modernism in the ...

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