Неустановеност и избор
Uncertainty and choice

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the transition from art history to visual culture from 1960-s onwards and suggests to historicise the very understanding of the „end of art history”. Refl ecting upon the end is an element of modernity; as an anxiety about the decline it can be found in the gradual comprehension of the development of art in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Special attention is paid to interplay and merge of different disciplinary fields into which the understanding of visual culture has taken shape. The developments in Bulgaria about the same timeare also tracked. The paper suggests a particular notion about the proper way to study the visual and about the actuality as intense both in future-ness and in historical presences. Categories such as novelty, difference, gaze, are submitted to an analysis and a particular stance as to what kind of art histories are actual is upheld.

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