ARTH 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Foundations, Art History, Keith Jenkins

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 3002
• Professor: Angella Carr

Document Summary

Le c tu re two (s e p te m b e r 16) . Rather than it being a single discourse, it is multiple. Presuppositions - when speaking another language you switch mind states, just as someone writing in another language will apply certain values. Events in the past that cannot be relived. The past can also become infected with history. The past is solid fact in which history can be built on. If two historians are writing about the same event, they will ascribe different meanings: when writing about the past, historians know more about it than the people of that specific time period. You can"t re-experience an event, exactly as it was. People at the time will know more, from a different angle, than those that write about the event. A good historian should be able to draw information from numerous sources to single out the common.