Art History I / Critiques and Revisions of the Method
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Complete the account of the critiques.

Gombrich argued that the ______ level of Panofsky's method lacked adequate constraint, and proposed establishing the ______ of the image as the first restraint. The movement asking who paid for a work and what market it entered is the ______ history of art. Questions about how objects reached European museums are questions of ______.

Word bank: third · genre · social · provenance · second · formal

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  1. The first blank is the interpretive level, not the identifying one.
  2. The last blank names the record of an object's ownership and movement.
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Gombrich argued that the third level of Panofsky's method lacked adequate constraint, and proposed establishing the genre of the image as the first restraint. The movement asking who paid for a work and what market it entered is the social history of art. Questions about how objects reached European museums are questions of provenance.

Why

The last blank has moved from historiography into law and politics. Provenance research began as a scholarly question about an object's history and is now central to restitution claims, which is an unusual trajectory for a piece of art-historical method.

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