Other Victories

The narrative of art history, as we know it, is a Eurocentric, patriarchal saga that venerates the predominantly white, Western men who wrote it and elevates them to the top of a cultural hierarchy by belittling, ignoring and concealing the existence of non-white, non-Western and non-male artists. This exclusion was in no way incidental, but was systemic and designed to uphold a singular, dominant world view. Nevertheless, this narrative has never gone unchallenged. Artists and scholars continue to confront these biases, offering radical reinterpretations of canonical works that expose history's prejudice so that we may expand our knowledge beyond white, Western, masculine perspectives and intentions.