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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.

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Thomas A Dowson
Department of Archaeology 
University of Southampton
England
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