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...second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case for purifying the Rembrandt canon -- without touching a third category, that of deliberate forgeries...
...some much loved paintings, once considered essential masterpieces, milestones in his art, like Berlin's Man with the Golden Helmet. This has caused tremendous indignation in some quarters -- a fuss comparable to the moment when Bernard Berenson made his name as an enfant terrible by downgrading half the supposed canon of Lorenzo Lotto nearly 100 years...
Gates' answer would be something like: Only if they are very bad writers. His ideal for a canon formation committee would include "a diverse array of ideological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives." In this manner, he hopes to achieve a larger conversation among many voices about what we should teach...
...exemplarily aware of the role of education in the reproduction of values." Gates just wants to reproduce the "correct" values. And why not? The alternative is the teaching of the present "aesthetic and political order," composed of the subjective experiences of white men, reconstituted in the texts of the canon...
Denying women an people of color the ability to evaluate their voices and shape their own canon "leaves us nowhere, invisible and voiceless," Gates believes. Thus, Afro-American studies. Practically, multicultural programs can decrease some of the alienation found on college campuses among minority students. But this cannot be the only goal. Ultimately, our incomplete canon leaves academics with an incomplete view of the world. Ultimately, to reject multiculturalism is to reject intellectualism...