The history of art is the history of revivals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
History develops, art stands still.