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My suggestion for the coming Wed (18th July) session

James Elkins, Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts – Art History as Writings (Routledge, 2000)
Preface (xi- midpage xiii) and
Chapter One [whole chapter if you got the time, or just the marked paragraphs as in the copy at AAA: p.11 header Normal Art History to p.12 midpage, p.19 from “Hence, to inquire …” from lower mid page to end of paragraph, p.20 from new paragraph “In art history, …” to end of paragraph, p.21 first paragraph, to p.23 midpage ending with “objectivity”, then p.24 bottom paragraph to p.26 “of its silence.”” on the upper page.]

I will try to be better prepared and do it as a (hopefully still just an informal) presentation, which could involve exchanges and dialogues, follow with discussion on any raised issues.

Then we will share with Leung Po and others on our own writing production. (Since I see myself not doing any art history writings at all, I think of sharing my encounters with Art History in the university and how I note my writings as wholely different from them.)

That is the present planning for the coming session.Hope to see you all on Wed.

Andrew Lam's suggested readings for the coming 8th August session

Chapter 25 Hans Belting, “The End of Art History”
From Eric Femie ed., Art History and Its Methods – A Critical Anthology (London: Phaidon, 1995), pp.291???/293-295.

Chapter 6 “The End(s) of Art History” (pp.156-181)
of Donald Preziosi, Rethinking Art History: Mediations on a Coy Science
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).

“Introduction” (pp.1- 17)
of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Feminism and Art History
(New York: Harper and Row, 1982).