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contemporaneity-81	Lysen, Flora	What to do with the “Most Modern” Artworks? Erwin Panofsky and the Art History of Contemporary Art	2014	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6315	233	46	This association of the American academia with the objectivity of the Renaissance and the superiority Panofsky thus granted to the field of American art history must be understood in light of the political context of the 1930s. (1953).34 For Americans, Europe could merge into “one panorama,” Panofsky said, whereas European scholars were preoccupied with questions of which country was the first to invent the cubiform capital or the rib-vault.35 Unbiased by nationalism, detached from the cultural and intellectual roots of the objects, the Americans were not only more apt to look at the past, “so were they able to see the present in a perspective picture undistorted by personal 30 Erwin Panofsky and Charles Rufus Morey, Memorandum on Immediate and Future needs for Research in Art and Archeology in the School of the Humanities of the Institute of Advanced Study (October 1935), partly reprinted in Korrespondenz vol. 2, 539.	cache/contemporaneity-81.pdf	txt/contemporaneity-81.txt