And students with a primary interest in art who may have registered for courses in this condescendingly tolerated specialty found themselves confronting a perplexingly irrelevant literature.

• 对艺术原本有兴趣的学生，选了课，要学这门勉强掉架的专业，却发现自己面对的是一堆令人困惑、文不对题的文献。