Mapping interdisciplinarity

• Autores: Thomas F. Reese
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 77, Nº 4, 1995, págs. 545-549
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Part of a symposium on interdisciplinarity. The writer delineates the changing boundaries between “disciplinarity” and “interdisciplinarity” in different fields of humanistic inquiry and in different national theaters of research and pedagogy. He reviews the history of art history as a discipline in Europe and the United States. He finds that the conflict between an American educational mission promoting the value of the arts in society and a European scholarly mission that has privileged the acquisition of humanistic learning and knowledge over the achievement of larger democratic social goals still exists at the base of professional life. He contends that it is time to acknowledge American contributions to fields such as feminism, ethnic studies, and world art, as well as to theory, and to question the efficacy of German turn-of-the-century disciplinary structures that still dominate American institutional life.