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Coventina

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25. Ouch! That does sound like a tough experience.

Sat May 9, 2015, 09:21 PM

May 2015

30 years ago, the state of the field of African and Oceanic arts was drastically different.

There probably weren't even textbooks on the subject, which is why you had to draw sketches in class.

Even today, I can tell you that the chapters on Oceania and Africa are the shortest in the global survey.

Mostly due to bigotry toward those peoples and their arts, but another contributing factor is that their art tends to be made out of more perishable materials.

May I offer you an apology on the behalf of my discipline?
I wasn't an art historian 30 years ago, but I promise I'm not doing that to my own students.

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Ouch! That does sound like a tough experience. Coventina May 2015 #25

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