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This was tomorrow: Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall as contemporary art.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)

From: The Art Bulletin  |  Date: 6/1/2004  |  Author: Houghton, Charlotte

   How can the individual work, which positivistic ... history has 
   determined in a chronological series and thereby reduced to the 
   status of a "fact," be brought back into its historical-sequential 
   relationship and thereby once again be understood as an "event"? 
   --Hans Robert Jauss (1) 

Art history books are filled with images that were novel in their day, and one perennial activity of scholarship has been to describe what constituted the new in a given image or era. ...

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