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. ...