Jillian Russo
JILLIAN RUSSO is curator at the Art Students League of New York.
The Unreliability of Primary Sources
By Jillian RussoParsing out what you know and what you don’t know from archival material is an intrinsic part of research. Archives and other primary sources are generally considered more reliable than secondary sources, such as art criticism, theoretical studies, and historical texts, because they are first-hand accounts.
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