Sentences with phrase «historical digression»

This post is something we have often been promised from Tony Brown, but never before seen: a genuinely interesting historical digression, whether or not you agree with any of the major conclusions.

For the reader, the value in this fixation on Rembrandt's relationship to Rubens is that it leads to a historical digression on the conditions surrounding the Dutch revolt from Spain, in which Rubens's father played a minor diplomatic role.

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In a digression on originality, fashion, and historical timing, Steinberg told of a visit to Ferren's New York studio in the mid 1950s in which he found the artist perplexed by a painting he had just completed.

Maybe they are opportunities for digression around historical formalist approaches.