Critic: In her presentation of important works of art in her art history textbook, Waverly claims to have presented only objective accounts: I have sought neither to advocate nor to denigrate what I included
In writing about art, a pretense of objectivity never succeeds: clearly, Waverly writes much better about art she likes than about art to which she is indifferent
Waverly believes that a historian of art should not prefer certain works of art to other works of art.