Resumen de Tribe and art history
Part of a symposium providing a range of critical perspectives on aesthetics, ethnicity, and the history of art. The writer examines the intersection of ethnicity and aesthetics in art historiography. He discusses the extent to which the culture shared by art historians and the “truth” negotiated by art historical knowledge are themselves pervaded by practitioners' untheorized assertion of an idea of ethnicity and of an institutionally unspoken but nevertheless disfiguring insertion of an ethnic space from which one works. He also ponders the extent to which art history's disciplinary culture might be redirected toward a postethnicity closer to the discipline's progressive self-image, and he maps the implications of the ethnicity/aesthetics juncture for art historical practice in the United States and the European Communities.
