History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
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