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The Practice Of Cartography: Imagining World Art Studies After Eurocentrism, Aja M. Sherrard
The Practice Of Cartography: Imagining World Art Studies After Eurocentrism, Aja M. Sherrard
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As the discipline of art history becomes increasingly global, the prevalence of European systems of thought and the supremacy of European systems of value in the way that we record, synthesize, teach, and preserve history have become increasingly apparent. This primacy of European systems of value, what we may call Eurocentrism, can be reduced to a problem of singularity: the belief in a single canon, a single timeline, or a single hegemonic center. Taking as subject; the theoretical infrastructure of the discipline itself, the Eurocentrism that has shaped it, and the past twenty years of postcolonial discourse, this paper seeks …