Dear Jenny, > our studies, though America has so many more art historians and universities > than France does that even people with an identity often seem to disappear. Oh well, I guess that when you're working on very known area, yes they are (even in France), but when you have, let say , six or seven people, in all the USA, working on Fluxus in history of art, and specifically within this discipline, it's not so many...
> that books by serious scholars like Owen Smith and Hannah Higgins are being > published by good university presses, things may change. Definitely, these pioneering publication are much helpful for a new generation of young scholars (not to speak about the remarkable work done): thanks to them, it's much easier to prove to academics that Fluxus is a valuable matter. > My advisor -- a > modernist -- tells me that it is not so long since major art history > programs were skeptical toward any work on art history after 1900. The He's right, alas...and this spirit has not completely disappeared form our discipline: at least, if one is working on XXth century art, one has to work on serious art movement (like Modernism for example ;-))... I hope you'll manage to find support in defending your choice, All the bests, Bertrand
