It is relevant in pictures, because many perspectives on viewing the pictures is continually changing. In this sense, history stands for art’s authenticity over time. It be cool if museums in the future take this modern desire in consideration – though I have no idea what they could do to make those great paintings come to life in the modern context. This is relevant to the detail which Berger infuses in his writing about how different classes of people interpret museums. In Berger’s more classically Marxist formulation he states, “A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or class than one that has been able to situate itself in history”. In “Ways of Seeing,” art critic John Berger discusses a key argument, which is, that if you know your history, then you know where you are coming from.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |