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Within the theoretical humanities there has recently been a resurgence of interest in objects and objectivity often pitched against those ontologies that are more relational. Of course, it might be said that an interest in objects has always been a concern of art history and practice (not least contemporary practice) and that ideas of a relational aesthetics have, for some time now, been a dominant trend in art theory.
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