ABSTRACT
Preziosi’s Rethinking Art History maintains a fidelity to the event of critical theory. The pointed questions he poses lay bare the foundations of the discipline of art history. Exposing a discourse founded on a spurious historiography and implicated in the discourses of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism, Preziosi rightly positions the discipline of art history within a larger discursive
field of subjection and the attendant dissolution of the sociopolitical sphere into a passive space of visual consumption.
