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Use when deciding whether an art-history project fits The Art Bulletin and how to frame its contribution. The Art Bulletin is the discipline's leading generalist journal across all periods and regions, so the test is a significant art-historical contribution, not a local description. Helps frame the question; it does not do the research.

When to use

• Choosing among possible projects or framings for an Art Bulletin article
• Deciding whether the contribution is big enough for the discipline's flagship
• Sanity-checking that the necessary images can plausibly be reproduced
• Pressure-testing fit before investing in research and image clearance

When not to use

• Doing the research
• Descriptive catalogue entries
• Theory tours with no sustained looking at actual works
• Sprawling surveys that cannot be argued convincingly in ~16,000 words

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