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'History of modern art' versus 'the history of modern art'
I love history.
History is important to me.
I love art history.
Art history is important to me.
I love modern art.
No determinatives in those.
BUT: with the x of y, you need a the.
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'History of modern art' versus 'the history of modern art'
As @Kate Bunting suggests, the history of modern art is one subdiscipline of art history. The same kind of switch happens when we specialize, for instance,
from physics to the physics of Star Trek—...
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