Practice question · True or false
Pollock argued that adding women to the existing canon is sufficient to correct art history's exclusions.
Hints
- Ask what the canon's criteria were formed by.
- Her argument is that the criteria themselves carry the exclusions.
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False
Why
False: her argument runs the other way. Adding women to the canon leaves its criteria untouched, and those criteria were formed by the same institutional exclusions that kept women out. The correction she proposes is to the criteria, which is a much larger demand than an expanded list.
Practise Critiques and Revisions of the Method
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- Gombrich argued that iconology is insufficiently constrained. Why does that objection bite?
- Sort each question by the movement that brought it into the discipline.
- Iconology is often revised rather than replaced by later critical frameworks. Why must a revisionist analysis…
- Which are among Gombrich's proposed restraints on iconological interpretation?
- Complete the account of the critiques.
- Of Panofsky's three levels, how many have proved most durable under the later critiques?
- Arrange these steps of a disciplined iconological reading in order.
- Gombrich rejected iconology and proposed abandoning the third level.