The Santiago Cross/ The History of Art Volume IV: The Matrix as Disorder

Vol IV: The Matrix as Disorder

The matrix is defined as ‘an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb).

The systems that make up the matrix of the narrative of The History of Art have come under contest from feminist, postcolonial and queer theory. The ‘womb’ of the matrix is threatened by disorder, spilling over into more complex terrain to include gendered, raced and classed ‘readings’ of the History of Art.