Ordering the universe: Documenta 11 and the apotheosis of the occidental gaze.

From: Art Journal | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu | Copyright information 
History is always interpretative, and it is that exegetical coloring and 
its inevitable and successive variations that give it a fictional 
quality. All narratives of this type thus turn out to be fatally tied to 
a fiction that they create and found. 
--Carlos Basualdos 
 
Art history has been a complex and internally unstable enterprise 
throughout its two-century-long history. Since its beginnings, it has 
been deeply invested in the fabrication and maintenance of a modernity 
that li...

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