陷入质疑的艺术史学科急需探究其可能性及路径。随着中国艺术学理论下艺术史学科体制的确立和持续运行，被质疑的悬而未决的艺术史有可能逐步开放其学术空间或可能性。从美术史专家自觉面向艺术史开放和拓展的事实，可知中国式艺术史学科的可能性及其路径正在打开。可建立多层面艺术史研究构架：普遍性视野中的单类型艺术史、多种类型艺术史观念比较、两种类型艺术史比较和跨类型艺术史整合。还可形成不同艺术院校环境中的艺术史学科特色差异：单科宽厚路径、学科群内通路径、全科综合路径和艺文综合路径。北京大学艺术史学科可寻求宽厚人文视野及跨学科综合视野下艺术史现象的个案分析或打通分析，其四条路径已初现端倪：实地调查与纵深分析汇通、艺术观念思考与艺术家作品体验汇通、文化史与艺术史贯通、跨国艺术史比较研究视野。综合大学艺术史学科可自觉追求其学科特色：跨学科贯通、多种类型艺术史通串、独到的史家见识和独特的史家个性。

Art history has been under question and is now in urgent need for explorations of its possibilities and paths. As the discipline of art history has been established and in continuous operation, the academic domain and possibilities of art history will be gradually opened, and along with these developments, the discipline of Chinese art history is also opening its possibilities and path, given the fact art historians are actively opening up and expanding art history. A multiplanar framework of art history research can be constructed to include the history of a uni-modal art in the universal perspective, the comparative history of various art concepts, the comparative studies between two modes of art, and integration of histories of cross-modal art. Furthermore, different disciplinary features can be formed and maintained in different institutes of arts. From the broad humanistic vision and interdisciplinary vision, the art history discipline in Peking University seeks both case analysis and comprehensive analysis of the phenomena in art history. The four emerging paths show themselves to be the interconnections between field study and profound analysis, between the appreciation of artworks and the thoughts on art conception, and between cultural history and art history, as well as the comparative study of transnational art history.