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The art of art history.(Books)(Book Review)
The modern sensibility recoils against the "great man" model of history: history as the account of decisive events, shaped by the autonomous actions of kings, princes, and generals. This is history as Shakespeare viewed it, where the great constants of legitimacy and succession perennially give rise to conflict, ever changing as the infinite permutations of duty, honor, and ambition act differently upon different men. In place of this, history has come to be taught "from below." as the record of inexorable and implacable social and economic forces, acting collectively and impersonally. Its high drama is less likely to be that of a decisive cavalry charge as a notable leap ...
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