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Art History Lecture (1930-89)

June 6, 2019 Elliott Colla
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1. white authority

In which a white curator lectures about 20th c. art history.

2. white hall

The audience is exclusively white. It looks nothing like the city around us.

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3. white tone

The lecture goes on for ninety minutes. The professor’s tone never rises, never falls.

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4. white frame

Each image is surrounded and contained by a white frame. At all moments, the whiteness of the boundary exceeds the area of color.

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5. white male subjects

During the time I was awake, the professor never showed an image produced by a woman or person of color. All men, all white.

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6. white talk

Each image is framed again in a discourse of white words that situate each work in a grand narrative.

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7. white history

Art is made in Europe, by white men. Just like History is.

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