PTE Reading MC Single Answer: The historiography of art history has been a potent theme in the discourses of the disc…

The historiography of art history has been a potent theme in the discourses of the discipline of the last thirty years. And the approaches and methods in the study of the visual are probably more varied, and more vigorously debated, than in any other area of historical inquiry. This is so much so that the interest in the practice and the study of art history has at times appeared to be equal to object-based study and it is arguable that this now forms part of the archive of the discipline. There is of course no doubt that since the inception of art history as a field of academic study, works of art have been ‘read’ in a variety of ways. These different modes of description and interpretation inscribe meaning into art and it is here that art and its history are perhaps most intricately linked.