Approaches Historians

McIntosh

Homosexuality is best understood as a product of western modernism rather than a pathological type

D’Amelio

Advance of capitalism allowed men to live away from their families and conceive of their own separate sexual identity

Faidman

Cultural affirmation of female friendship provided scope for intimacy amongst women

Cooke

Sexuality was not only a personal issue, but rather one which was of core importance to social governance

Lochrie

Late medieval people she studies would find the concept of a sexual norm incomprehensible

Wittig

Heterosexuality has been embedded in the western mind since Plato

Mitchell

heterosexuality emerged as… an identity not simply through top down impositions of the state

baxandall

it is as this point human equipment for visual perception ceases to be uniform

Jay

no culture is able to fully protect its borders as he or she is necessarily in contact with something “outside”

Vischer

an empty form of art cannot exist

Fredriech

emphasises need to take iconoclasts and their marks seriously

Bordieu

to understand art one must be involved in the game

Samuel and Light

criticise top down approach Art and Power exhibition takes to Nazi propaganda

Dewey

art should communicate not dictate

Burke

photographs are never evidence of history; they are themselves historical

Thompson

contemporaries were struck by the increasing visibility, scale and visuality of pictorial propaganda

bennet

beamish embodies and institutionalised mode of amnesia

vergo

high idealism and the academic intentions which lay behind the foundation of museums are in danger of being forgotten

Pollitt

Rome became a museum of greek art

Waddy

not only for the private delecation of their owners; they were also part of their public reputations

Elsner

and the world itself… has always relied on its appointed collectors

McCellan

long before the first picture had been hung the republicans recognised the Louvre as a symbol of revolutionary achievement

Fuentes

the very call to find more sources reproduces the same erasures and silences by demanding the impossible

Paseta

notions of indian backwardness were irrevocably tied to the treatment of women