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artbull-scholarly-positioning

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Use when situating an Art Bulletin article in the historiography and scholarly literature of art history. The Art Bulletin expects engagement with prior interpretation, methods, and debates across the field, not just the literature on one object. Positions the contribution; it does not do the looking or the archival work.

When to use

• Mapping prior scholarship and interpretive debates
• Distinguishing reading from canonical or recent interpretation
• Deciding methodological tradition
• Tracing historiographic line
• Stating the gap precisely
• Engaging broader methodological and thematic conversations

When not to use

• Doing the looking
• Doing the archival work
• Listing titles without an interpretive argument
• Claiming novelty by ignoring similar work
• Engaging only monographs on one object

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