trusting the anecdotes and stories of those not yet included in the canon; and, above all, seeking to abolish the notion of a canon altogether.

questioning definitions and accepted terms

working with the broadest definition of art

It is a dissimulation to behave as if art history were a colonized territory fighting for independence and a return to an indigenous condition innocent of ideological corruption. Art history is never innocent.

the history of art cannot deny its own intellectual inheritance:

While the term ‘decolonize’ art history has significant rhetorical power, it is founded upon a misconception. Art history can decolonize itself only to the extent that it acknowledges that Euro-colonial art and our discipline itself are themselves products of empire.