Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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“It made me freshly wonder,” he recalled, “how all of us — Vietnamese peasants, Indian tribals or indeed Anglo-American writers — come to construct and inhabit a certain sense of our place in the world, how these differing explanations collide and clash in an age of intensified communications and travel, and how this how this new discordance may affect the practice of art and criticism, which until recently has been informed by the assumptions of Western history.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Upfront-t.html

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