A fool I may be, but I am very definitely not > confusing art historical analysis with those > art surveys that appear on the shelves of school libraries. Having just read a paper at the British Associations of Art Historians annual conference (in a session called the `Problems of Periodisation') I am very aware of the way in which art historians, be they like Gombrich or TJ Clarke, bolster a eurocentric history of art. Surveys AND analyses of art that are very definitely not restricted to school libraries. ---------------------- Thomas A Dowson Department of Archaeology University of Southampton England [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%