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artbull-argument-development

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Use when building the central art-historical argument of an Art Bulletin article — the thesis, its stakes, and the chain from visual and documentary evidence to interpretation. The Art Bulletin rewards a fresh, well-warranted claim, not description. Shapes the argument; it does not generate evidence or do the looking.

When to use

• Crystallizing the thesis and what is at stake
• Linking formal observations and documents into an interpretation
• Defining scope conditions and counter-readings
• Building the claim and its warrant
• Converting connoisseurial assertions into named inferences

When not to use

• Generating evidence
• Doing the looking
• Visual analysis
• Scholarly positioning

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