It is not denied that the methodological advancement of art history in modern times is mainly due to the fundamental interdependence of art history and aesthetics. Just through such an inner correlation, since Winckelmann, art history as a system followed from each methodological thinking of art historians, that is, from the consciousness of historical reason in the realm of art. Here, according to this view, we aim to elucidate, not only historically but theoretically, the necessity of systematic character of art history.
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