Defining art in instructions for travellers: the agency of the Questionnaire de Sociologie et d'Ethnographie drafted by the Paris Anthropological Society in 1883
The present article deals with the definitions of art included in instructions forwarded to travellers. Such texts date back to the sixteenth century and were not only applied widely in Europe but subsequently in North America too. During the eighteenth century they began to adopt an increasingly ac...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/mersmann1.pdf |