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Until then we grapple with our impatience and cultural cornucopia. Slow looking, like slow cooking, may yet become the new radical chic.

Clark, who during the 1970s and ’80s pioneered a kind of analysis that rejected old-school connoisseurship in favor of art in the context of social and political affairs, has lately written a book about devoting several months of his time to looking intently at two paintings by Poussin. So tourists now wander through museums, seeking to fulfill their lifetime’s art history requirement in a day, wondering whether it may now be the quantity of material they pass by rather than the quality of concentration they bring to what few things they choose to focus upon that determines whether they have “done” the Louvre. Liberated by a proliferation, Western culture was also set adrift in an ocean of passing stimulation, with no anchors to secure it. Millions of images came to compete for our attention. This was good and necessary, up to a point. A core of shared values yielded to an equality among visual materials. At the same time, the canon of art that provided guideposts to tell people where to go and what to look at was gradually dismantled. We could dream about covering lots of ground thanks to expanding collections and faster means of transportation. Travelers who took the Grand Tour across Europe during the 18th century spent months and years learning languages, meeting politicians, philosophers and artists and bore sketchbooks in which to draw and paint to record their memories and help them see better. Today we read hundreds of books, or maybe none, but rarely any with the same intensity. At one time a highly educated Westerner read perhaps 100 books, all of them closely. Partly we seem to go to them to find something we already recognize, something that gives us our bearings: think of the scrum of tourists invariably gathered around the Mona Lisa. Visiting museums has always been about self-improvement.

Only a 17th-century wood sculpture of a copulating couple, from San Cristobal in the Solomon Islands, placed near an exit, caused several tourists to point, smile and snap a photo, but without really breaking stride.

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'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.A few game tourists glanced vainly in guidebooks or hopefully at wall labels, as if learning that one or another of these sculptures came from Papua New Guinea or Hawaii or the Archipelago of Santa Cruz, or that a work was three centuries old or maybe four might help them see what was, plain as day, just before them.Īlmost nobody, over the course of that hour or two, paused before any object for as long as a full minute. Support our mission and make a difference, please volunteer!įor further information, please call 48 or email your request to This email address is being protected from spambots.

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