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| Dispatch from the Kulturkampf: Yale to Stop Teaching Core Art History Survey: Too White, Too Male |
| 2020-01-29 |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #9 Another department beclowning itself: "Problematic." Cue frowning. The canon enlarges. "Cool tour!" smirk your charges, Unlatching the catch on their Browning. |
| Posted by: Elmavigum tse Tung6847 2020-01-29 20:47 |
| #8 It's not about all art being equal. It's about this: If you don't understand your own art, you won't understand the art of other cultures, and what makes it unique. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-01-29 18:09 |
| #7 Harvard: "We're going to stop teaching history!" Yale: "Hold my beer!" |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-01-29 17:50 |
| #6 ^ not intersectional enough. Melanin-deficient. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-29 17:08 |
| #5 Yale has a huge collection of Andy Warhol. Warhol was a good friend of Trump at Studio 54. Does this play into the Kulturkampf? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-01-29 15:15 |
| #4 Dispatch from the Kulturkampf: Yale to Stop Teaching FIFY It's all about the value of the piece of paper for attendance. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-29 11:56 |
| #3 Not trying, Lex. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-29 05:24 |
| #2 Art history department chair and the course’s instructor Tim Barringer told the News that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of art does not just mean Western art. Rather, when there are so many other regions, genres and traditions — all “equally deserving of study” — putting European art on a pedestal is “problematic,” he said. Sure. Islamic squiggles = Michelangelo's contraposto, Caravaggio's chiaroscuro and Da Vinci's sfumato. Equally deserving, right. Mesoamerican pots are the equivalent of Velasquez. African masks are the equivalent of Rembrandt's portraits. Yup. Are these people trying to f--- up our children? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-29 04:15 |
| #1 When museums start dumping all that useless art from dead white males, I'll be at the door collecting them. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-01-29 03:48 |