Khrenov, N. A. History of Art as a History of Culture.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the mutual relations which are being formed today between a booming ‘science about culture’ and art disciplines such as art history. Acknowledging the crisis of modern historical science (as well as art history) as a sub subject of natural science, the author tries to go back to historian of art Igor Grabar’s useful methodological thesis saying that history of art is a history of culture at the same time. According to the author of the article, today this thesis gives certain leads for historians but also demands a deeper insight into methodological matters.

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