2024-05-04T17:34:02-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150180438/yale-pivots-away-from-a-euro-centric-art-history-curriculum Antonio Pacheco 2020-01-24T13:23:00-05:00 >2021-10-12T01:42:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5a/5abf770c082095fee8c44f48072ea740.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like Vincent Scully, &ldquo;Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present&rdquo; was once touted to be one of Yale College&rsquo;s quintessential classes. But [its cancellation] is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western &ldquo;canon&rdquo; &mdash; a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Margaret Hedeman and Matt Kristoffersen, writing in <em>The Yale Daily News,</em> shed light on a recent decision by the <a href="https://archinect.com/yale" target="_blank">Yale University</a> Art History Department to retool and refocus its foundational survey course with the aim of lessening the class's "singular focus in Western art."&nbsp;</p> <p>The move comes as many disciplines, including writing, history, and art, move to "<a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150170946/decolonization-is-a-gift-ccny-s-lesley-lokko-on-questioning-architecture-s-inherited-futures" target="_blank">decolonize</a>" and broaden the scope of their respective "canons" in the educational setting amid a renewed awareness of under-privileged histories, perspectives, and authors.&nbsp;</p>