Why should we think that art histor

Why should we think that art history has a history? I understand by a history not simply a succession of events, but those events given an order and structure. The very idea that a history can be more than a fiction arising from a Euro, phallo, logo-centric imposition of order has become highly problematic. A history must be selective, which means that it leaves much out; and its selection principles imply value judgments which will probably be controversial. One fashionable view is that any historical order must lie, ultimately, in the narrative itself, not in the events which it structures. "How," it has been asked