For example, to think of a giant like Clement Greenberg, his early championing of Jackson Pollock may have launched his career, but his legacy was made not on the basis of these often cursory reviews, but rather on his synthesis and contextualization of Pollock's significance in later essays such as ««American - Type» Painting» and «After Abstract Expressionism» that rely on a certain degree of historical distance from their subjects, however slight. (brooklynrail.org)
Wellhausen, who is rightly credited with recognizing in the Yahwist a budding historical ingenue, spoke of the Priestly writer as a deceiver, as one who sought to disguise his true historical distance from the matters he was reporting in order to trick his leaders into thinking they had before them accurate historical records. (religion-online.org)
Rauch seems unafraid to go there simply because historical distance may have made it palatable again for his own generation, for whom the style most likely became, ironically, more of a pop idiom. (brooklynrail.org)