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| Leonaert Bramer Still life with traveling trunk 17th century etching British Museum |
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| atrtributed to Leonaert Bramer Rearing horse 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Leonaert Bramer Sorrow of Hecuba ca. 1630 oil on copper Prado |
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| Leonaert Bramer Study for an oval ceiling 17th century drawing British Museum |
"Tourism is the dominant mode of our culture. It turns time into space and cancels the latter in the ubiquity of the image. For production in the symbolic, it substitutes consumption in the imaginary. The world is a museum where the imaginary museum has preceded us – it's banal to reiterate this, so long after Valéry, Benjamin and Malraux. What is curious is that the educational system still hasn't registered it. Great consumer of audio-visual techniques, it pretends not to have anything but an instrumental relation to them, which leaves it unscathed. And it is precisely by being blinkered to the fact that cultural transmission happens in the mode of simulation – in other words, in Flash Art rather than at the museum – that educators, whose mission is to transmit culture, have morphed into welcoming hosts of a great cultural Disneyland. Hello young people, let us guide you to the realm of simulation."
– Thierry de Duve, translated by Ian Farr, from Talent, Creativity, Judgment (1993)
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| Willem van Mieris Nymph pursued by Apollo late 17th century or early 18th century drawing British Museum |
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| Willem van Mieris Cheiron the Centaur bearing the infant Asclepius meets his daughter Ocyroe, a Prophetess 1694 etching British Museum |
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| Willem van Mieris Drunken man 1691 watercolor on vellum British Museum |
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| Willem van Mieris Courtesan 1691 watercolor on vellum British Museum |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Six women wearing headscarves 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Village with thatched buildings ca. 1595-1605 drawing British Museum |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Thatched stables and a thatched cottage ca. 1595-1605 drawing British Museum |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Pollard willows in winter 17th century- drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Two figures beneath a tree 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Bears devouring the children who mocked the prophet Elisha 17th century drawing British Museum |