Practice question · True or false
The problems these practices pose are entirely new to art history.
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- Consider medieval site-specific work and liturgical occasions.
- Altarpieces cut up for the market lost meaning in the same way a dismantled installation does.
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False
Why
False. Medieval art was frequently site-specific, liturgy was time-based and participatory, and altarpieces broken up for the market lost their meaning much as a dismantled installation does. The new languages largely make visible problems the discipline already had and had learned to ignore.
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