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Can a theory of art be falsified by a single work? LeWitt's sentences about conceptual art are still the best description of it Is there a theory of ugliness or only theories of beauty? Why art history still organizes itself around Vasari's timeline The sublime needs terror to work and mountains alone will not do it What does a manifesto actually do for a group of painters? Panofsky's three levels and why the second one gets skipped Peirce's icon-index-symbol triad is harder to apply to a photograph than it looks Does reception theory make the viewer the real author of the work? Judging nature aesthetically is not the same as judging art Queer abstraction exists and asking whether it is legible is the wrong question Why the discipline split from archaeology and what it cost Who decides that a style ended in 1900 rather than 1914? What makes something ugly rather than merely badly made? Influence is the laziest word in art historical writing

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