To look back over the last forty years of the journal is to be struck by the changes in intellectual climate and the successes and failures in meeting the goals of the original editorial vision. Most disappoiting is the neglect of neuroscience, which is particularly striking considering its earlier productive role in the principal tradition of art history. Most surprising is the way that postmodernism only slowly embraced it as a tool in spite of the fact that figures they most respected, such as Freud and Deleuze, were clear that any theory will be strengthened if based in neurobiology. Fortunately, though, there is now robust evidence that the climate is changing at both the individual and institutional level for reason that are exemplifies at the end of this essay.

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艺术史与记忆，从沙发到扫描仪：论新艺术史如何唤醒神经未来

回顾该杂志过去四十年的历史，知识分子气候的变化以及在实现最初的编辑愿景目标方面的成功和失败，都会令人震惊。最令人失望的是对神经科学的忽视，考虑到它在艺术史的主要传统中早期的生产作用，这一点尤其引人注目。最令人惊讶的是后现代主义只是慢慢地将其作为一种工具来接受的方式，尽管事实上他们最尊重的人物，如弗洛伊德和德勒兹，很清楚，如果以神经生物学为基础，任何理论都会得到加强。不过，幸运的是，现在有强有力的证据表明，出于本文末尾所举例说明的原因，个人和机构层面的气候正在发生变化。