Keith Moxey

The History of Art After the Death of the "Death of the Subject"

A new understanding of the subject and subjectivity characterises today's study of visual art. This change is reflected in the essay of Keith Moxey, one of the most significant representatives of poststructuralist thought in art history. The end of the Humanist notion of the subject opened the road to new approaches to historical interpretation (for example, gender studies), which play an undeniably important role today. Moxey considers a new theory of subjectivity and examines the complicated relationship between a historian's subjectivity and his or her text.

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