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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