From WSJopinion: “Art is a product of its time. To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling,” writes Ever Marinelli, a student at Harvard University.
Art Lives in History
Whether colonizer or colonized, our ancestors’ art remains beautiful, thought-provoking and magnificent. It illustrates a time forever lost, offers invaluable insight into the roots of our cultures, and reflects how our ancestors perceived the world. These qualities exist irrespective of the society responsible for the art. Evaluating historical art based on criteria unfathomed at the time is unfair.
This understanding raises important questions about the structure of modern education—such as why European art forms still tend to be the only ones taught in schools when such other traditions as the ghazal, Chinese ceramics and black American spirituals are also historically and artistically significant.
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