by Jon Lackman | 19 September 2006 | Journals, Theory
In the September 2006 Art Bulletin, Robert Williams and Christopher S. Wood contribute a mock Platonic dialogue. They write in their introduction, “Its value as a point of departure — as a tool with which to anatomize the challenges now confronting us — rests on the figure of Protagoras, who, as a Sophist, can be taken to represent the fact that so much of the modern thought on which contemporary art history depends betrays a deep affinity with Sophistry.” Its prose is accessible, its tone excited; Protagoras, for one, exclaims “By Zeus!” at least three times.
