ABSTRACT
In considering the various and often vexed relationships between art history and aesthetics, it is not a matter of whether art history or philosophy “subsumes” art more or less adequately. Rather, art—whether one considers the work as event, sensation, or experience—tests the limits of both philosophy and of the discipline of art history, no doubt in each case differently. Indeed, their different stances with respect to the work of art serve to distinguish philosophy and art history from one another.
