Tangible Objects

on our personal art histories and the value of images

I don’t know if I believe in art history.

One discussion in my contemporary art theory class has led me to a new understanding of the field I’ve chosen to roost in for a few more years, though not to any credit of the program. In one of the assigned readings, art critic John Berger’s Ways of Seeing,¹ the argument is that when a work of art is reproduced t…