The Philosophical Force Driving the Fight to Rewrite History

[rangerrebew]

The Philosophical Force Driving the Fight to Rewrite History
Feb 21, 2020Sumantra Maitra


Two recent stories that dominated academic Twitter were the cancellation of the Western Art History course at Yale and the incorporation of the 1619 Project in the school curricula in Buffalo, New York and Washington DC. Though political centrists on Twitter were outraged, no one noted that those two incidents are thematically similar. Without understanding the connection, fighting back against indoctrination throughout the education system will be impossible.

Consider the situation at Yale. Yale’s administration ended a decades-old course on the Western canon because it is arguably too big a field to cover. The course, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present,” was once taught by authorities like Vincent Scully but has caused “unease” among some students and faculty because it is an “idealized Western ‘canon’—a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists.”

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2020/02/the-philosophical-force-driving-the-fight-to-rewrite-history/

[Slide Rule]

Too white while it remains right.

[goatprairie]

Yes, let's bring out those great oil paintings from the other parts of the world.
What....there aren't hardly any? You mean 99% of what is considered great art came out of Europe?
Well never mind....we'll count these daubings of mud on walls or barely distinguishable figures as great art. We'll cram the square figures into the round holes if we have to destroy everything in the process.

[Fishrrman]

"The Philosophical Force Driving the Fight to Rewrite History..."

...is:
leftism/marxism/communism.

Next question...?

[Absalom]

Yes, let's bring out those great oil paintings from the other parts of the world.
What....there aren't hardly any? You mean 99% of what is considered great art came out of Europe?
Well never mind....we'll count these daubings of mud on walls or barely distinguishable figures as great art. We'll cram the square figures into the round holes if we have to destroy everything in the process.

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A reflection.
Since the earliest cultures/societies, Man maintained a strong spiritual sense, the catalyst/driver behind the Art he created.
Sadly, 18th century French Enlightenment radicals such as Rousseau, promoted material
betterment as Man's higher calling; changing the the earlier dynamic and for the worse.