Source: Art Net
Yale is getting rid of its art history course, which covers the evolution of art, after students and faculty noticed that the course largely focuses on the contributions of white artists more than any other artists.
Art Net reports that the University will take the opportunity to rethink how it teaches about art evolution in a way that tells a fuller story of history.
The course is one of the university’s most popular courses, but will finally be taught for the last time this semester.
“I want all Yale students (and all residents of New Haven who can enter our museums freely) to have access to and to feel confident analyzing and enjoying the core works of the western tradition,” wrote the course’s instructor, art history department chair Tim Barringer
“But I don’t mistake a history of European painting for the history of all art in all places.”
“Essential to this decision is the department’s belief that no one survey course taught in the space of a semester could ever be comprehensive, and that no one survey course can be taken as the definitive survey of our discipline,” wrote the Art History Department in its statement.
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