人们只有把“上层艺术”与“大众艺术”看作一个不可分开的两项表达式,才算真正理解了二者之间的关系。但是这个两项式一旦被从历史的角度观察,它的特征和自律性似乎就不存在了。举例说明,当我们通过研究敦巴顿橡树园图书馆(DumbartonOaks)中的拜占廷艺术或玛雅艺术,想寻找大众艺术的真实传统的可信证据时,就似乎都归结到宗教图像志中了。日常生活场景的描绘几乎很少,它们是被安排在抄本插图上 People only really understand the relationship between the “upper strata art” and “mass art” as an inseparable two expressions. However, once the two-term model has been historically viewed, its characteristics and self-discipline do not seem to exist. As an illustration, when we look to credible evidence of the true tradition of mass art by studying Byzantine or Mayan art in Dumbarton Oaks, it seems that we have all attributed to religious imagery. There are very few depictions of everyday scenes and they are arranged on the transcript