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artbull-scholarly-positioning
Use when situating an Art Bulletin article in the historiography and scholarly literature of art history. The Art Bulletin expects engagement with prior interpretation, methods, and debates across the field, not just the literature on one object. Positions the contribution; it does not do the looking or the archival work.
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# Scholarly Positioning & Historiography (artbull-scholarly-positioning)
An Art Bulletin article must show it knows the **historiography** — how this material (and questions
like it) have been interpreted before — and then stake out what is **new**. The journal's readers are
art historians across periods and methods; the literature you engage signals where your contribution
sits and why it matters.
## When to trigger
- Mapping the prior scholarship and interpretive debates around your objects and problem
- A reviewer said you "ignore key literature" or "overstate novelty"
- Distinguishing your reading from a canonical or recent interpretation
- Deciding which methodological tradition (iconography, formalism, social history of art, material/technical, postcolonial, gender/queer, reception) you are working in or against
