Telling art criticism and art history apart in your writing

What this note covers

1. Two practices, one exam paper
2. What art critics actually do
3. What art historians actually do
4. The overlap, and why it matters
5. Using critics and historians as evidence, not wallpaper
6. Writing in each mode: sentence-level differences
7. How this is examined, and what separates a top-band answer

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