. For art historians and curators (since Vasari) work to perpetuate the cult of celebrities; following on from gallerists and critics who carry out the selection process. Accepting the canon, art historians are not inclined to challenge the star system and its hierarchies, with micro-histories that may provide a more diverse and inclusive coverage of what actually happened in history. It is useful, at this point, to draw a distinction between Art History as the written account of what allegedly happened at the time, and art history as what actually happened. The first belongs to the realm of discourse, the second to reality, which always exceeds the scope of discourse. The two should not be conflated. To overcome the limitations of partial versions of history, we need to cast our net further: to produce fuller and more comprehensive accounts of what happened, and retrieve works and experiments that seemed less significant (and, thus, more expendable) to some… from research on bruce Taylor by Gerad.
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