Does contemporary art have a history? This study attempts to look behind the foundational myths of modernism and contemporary art as heroic overcoming of everything old in the name of something new. A tradition of art's reference to the present becomes visible here which is deeply rooted in that history when painting began to struggle for its status as art.
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