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First Titian tour today.\u00a0 If I examine my own touring skills, as I try to from time to time, I find that I’m better touring old master’s of Western art and Asian art than I am art of the Americas.\u00a0 The Thaw collection, which I admired, found me at my clunkiest, a bit wooden perhaps, more didactic.\u00a0 In talking with Allison today it occurred to me that it might be as simple as the fact that I know far more about Asia and Europe than I do about the native peoples of this continent.\u00a0 It’s much harder for me to talk about historical context with art of the Americas because I just don’t know it as well.<\/p>\n
When I tour Western art or Asian art, I can draw on many years of reading history, going to museums, thinking, traveling; but, when I tour either art of the Americas or Africa for that matter, the context is just not in me, literally.\u00a0 In that way then those objects do become more like ethnological artifacts than art objects.\u00a0 As a result, I find myself a bit more distant from them, put in a more scholarly mode, not as engaged.<\/p>\n
At a different point in my life I would have wanted to fix this, to dive into native peoples history and ways, stuff I studied in college, but from an anthropological perspective.\u00a0 The same situation with Africa.\u00a0 Today I want to deepen, not broaden my knowledge of art history, so I’m going to continue working with Asian and Western art.\u00a0 In those areas I still have so much learn and my passion is there.<\/p>\n
The Titian show is in my sweet spot though and a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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