Grunebaum, Heidi13/06/201713/06/20172013Grunebaum, H. (2013). Uncontained and the Constraints of Historicism as Method: A reply to Mario Pissarra. Third Text Africa, 3 (1): 86-920952-8822https://hdl.handle.net/10566/2981Mario Pissarra�s rigorous and considered critical review of Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project archive (2012) marks a significant contribution to starting a discussion that the book and exhibition aimed to provoke. That an interlocutor of his authority has undertaken such an attentive and thoughtful critique does the publication a great service and opens up pathways for further conversation and work on the Community Arts Project (CAP) art collection at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). I would like to reciprocate in a similar vein and take up Third Text Africa�s invitation to respond to Pissarra�s review by thinking about the merits and limits of his critique.enPublisher retains copyright. Authors may archive the published version in their Institutional Repository.UncontainedConstraintsHistoricismMario PissarraArticle