Abstract
Part of a symposium on art history and its theories. The writer discusses art history and its theories from the perspective of a professional theorist who is regularly attacked for his work on art. He examines the reasons for the discrepancy between the considerable impact of theories in the pedagogical practice of art history and the absence of such an impact in the institution. He argues that the discrepancy has to do with a confusion between paradigm and discipline and that resistance to theory is a paradigmatic position disguised as disciplinary allegiance. He points out that as a theorist, primarily semiotic, he does belong to, or participates in, the paradigm to which many art historians also belong, a paradigm that adherents to the alternative paradigm, which has a firm hold on art history as an institution, do not recognize as valid.
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