A World History of What?

Burke, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8365.1983.tb00807.x

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Art and History, 1969–2019

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2020

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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The 1960s and 1970s marked a turning point in the encounters between generalist historians and art historians regarding the study of art. Before that moment, art history, from its very inception as an independent department in universities, had been entirely distinct from the discipline of generalist history. However, three case studies—art and the Reformation, the rise of the art market, and the proliferation of political monuments—reveal the convergence between the two disciplines that has unfolded during the last half-century, culminating in recent discussions of agency and attempts to answer the question, What is Art?

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