It's funny how many voices come out of the woodwork regarding the past, the prospering of patriarchy, or rich white male dominance and how much it cleaves into this belief that the oligarchy which in truth exist had nothing at all to do with any of it.
First, the sense that you understand history.
When I was in college I studied in part American Art history, it was part of my education. This is how I captured part of my own liberalism today.
Where there was a rudimental expression of art rendering because in America back then, there were few trained artist. Instead you had elongated
bodies, rudimentary figures expressed mostly by Puritan Patriarchy, a backwards definition to art, back when in truth most white people who had come to the New World as it was so called in history books couldn't read, for there were no books.
Back then, the native people were the real artists.
I didn't study American Art history as a minor to understand history, although I always did like history. But what I did find out about art history is more
about history than I ever dreamed. A bigger mosaic about our truer history that included expression of the times, perhaps a small understanding of what it was like to live way back when.
Most times history is taught the wrong way, and this is easy to see when someone cuts and pastes things they find on the internet.
Let's start after the constitution was written with Charles Willson Peale's, "The Artist and His Museum".
It's about discovery, it's about science. If you read history, American history, you should know something about Peale, just like you should know about Benjamin Franklin. You should start to understand perhaps a little about progress, a little about the idea of science, or the reasons behind scientific method, as well as the reasons behind the progressions of American Art.
Poetry, all that, comes from people who pushed for its endowment, for public works, public schools. It wasn't about the same old ****
that gets regurgitated, or the patriarchy of dead rich white men who owned slaves, who by the way made them rich in the first place.
It's really disgusting, I mean how you weaken workers Unions, and then you cry out loud how you are cruelly dismantled by global economics,
without trying to understand the cause.
I leave this post with a great Brit born lyricist who in the end made NY city his home
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https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=cuuhs ... uuhsqA95iA