Origins of the Art History Survey Text
Mitchell Schwarzer
The universal and developmental presumptions of art history are nowhere better expressed than in the global survey text. More any other genre within discipline, text embodies nineteenth-century vision to unify past into a coherent relevant story for present. In its grand tour through all five continents over thousands years, asks us believe that immeasurable diversity can be brought together great chain meaning. is at most grandiose, promising reveal complex truths humanity art. It also political, reducing cultural individual differences questionable hierarchies generalities.
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