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Challenging The Postwar Narrative: The Art And Agenda Of Boris Lurie, Kiersten Signe Remster
Challenging The Postwar Narrative: The Art And Agenda Of Boris Lurie, Kiersten Signe Remster
Honors Theses
Art history is shaped, studied, and taught based on narratives, artistic movements, and the biographies of celebrated artists. While contributing to an understanding of prevalent traditions and artists working in those traditions, these narratives are also constructions of inclusion and exclusion that establish art historical placement for certain artists while relegating others to historical obscurity. It is clear what happens to the critical fortunes of artists who are placed within these narratives. Yet what happens to the artists who do not fit within any of the categories established by these constructions? Are they then to be understood as simply minor …