Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
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Is It a Museum in Isolation?
It is exactly a return to the pan opticon. And it's exactly to go back to where we began, standing on the battlefield at waterloo. You are in another place, at another time, with other people and these things going on around you. It's allowing the imagination back in, which i think in imagination is always there. The berlin museums have gone on a different tack and isolated this as the supremely beautiful object, in a sense, out of time. There is, course, lots of contextual material near by, but it's shone absolutely as a thing of beauty on its in isolation. Unless they happen to be themselves great specialists and only interested in the history of
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