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“For it the history of art was, in the last analysis, a history of ability. The new approach, on the contrary, regards the history of the evolution of art as a history of volition, proceeding from the psychological pre-assumption that ability is only a secondary consequence of volition.” - modern shift to the appreciation of the volition, the “demand of the art object to be created” rather than the skill