邊緣之邊緣：在拭汗拭淚之後

This book began life as a University College London Ph.D. thesis in the History of Art (Privatising Culture: Aspects of Corporate Intervention in Contemporary Art and Art Institutions During the Reagan and Thatcher Decade; 1997). The process of completing this dissertation was a very long one, in the course of which 1 had many happy moments of intellectual discovery, but also an enduring and profound sense of alienation. Working within a white, predominately Euro-centric discipline and institutional framework, I felt myself to be a member of a marginalised race, studying a marginalised subject. Nor does the completion of this work necessarily bring with it a full range of compensations. Although the academic study of art history can never, by definitjon, be isolationist, its internal structure, particularly in Britain, continues to be largely wedded to the status quo, and the question that remains unanswered is why it cannot, and should not, change.