文章基本信息

标题：To betray art history
本地全文：下载
作者：Jae Emerling
期刊名称：Journal of Art Historiography
印刷版ISSN：2042-4752
出版年度：2016
卷号：15
页码：15-JE1
语种：English
出版社：University of Glasgow, Institute for Art History
摘要：The work of Donald Preziosi represents one of the most sustained and often brilliant attempts to betray the modern discipline of art history by exposing its skillful shell game: precisely how and why it substitutes artifice, poetry, and representational schemes for putative facticity and objectivity (that desirous and yet ever elusive Kunstwissenschaft that art historians prattle on about). This attempt is inseparable from a sinuous, witty, involutive writing style that meanders between steely insight and coy suggestions of how art history could be performed otherwise. Preziosi’s writes art history. In doing so he betrays its disciplinary desires. It is this event of betrayal that has made his work so exciting to some, so troubling to others.