The Art Bulletin, September 1st, 1996
Most art historians employ a writing style that has been criticized as too technical and predictable. Unlike their poet and novelist contemporaries, art historians have had no choice but to utilize a more pedantic writing approach to give more credence to their work. This formulaic approach should eventually evolve into a style that is not only a pleasure to read, but is factual and informative as well. Art-historical writing is for the most part clotted with jargon and larded with cliche, impenetrable in its density, analytic and contentious to a fault, and, worst of all, utterly predictable...
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