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Svetlana Alpers is a major figure in the field of art history in the late twentieth century. Although Alpers has not been a prolific writer, her books have provoked a disproportionate amount of interest and controversy because of her penchant for confronting difficult and complicated issues. In spite of the fact that most of her writing has concentrated on problems connected with visual culture of the Baroque period, each of her books has had a very different and unusual thrust and character. While she is certainly a "progressive" art historian, her work as a whole is not easily categorized under any of the common methodological rubrics of what is sometimes referred to as "the new art history."(1) In fact, Alpers appears to take pride in her independence from scholarly fashion. She once said in an interview: "I'm suspicious of programs and of labels like 'the new art history.' I resist the apellation. I do my work, and I'm not conscious as I'm doing it that it's part of the new art history. I'm studying art. This is a difficult thing to do. I'm simply trying to do it in the best way I can."(2)
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