Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange… - Simon Schama
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange…
- Simon Schama
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough… - Simon Schama
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. - Simon Schama
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings… - Simon Schama
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings…
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given t… - Simon Schama
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given t…
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a… - Simon Schama
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a…
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle. - Simon Schama
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom. - Simon Schama
Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.
What can art really do in the face of atrocity? - Simon Schama
What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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