A sculpture, a column, and a painting: the tension between art and history.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: Cummins, Tom | Copyright information

The relationship between art and history is not one of equality but tension. An art object, always confronted in the present, is an object of the past and it demands that the viewer deal with history at the very moment of confrontation. This, however, does not mean that art and history attain a cohesion, that the wreckage wrought by history is made whole again in the artwork. The materialist art historian's awareness of what was done in the past, how art presents that past and how viewers see...

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