Historian's work

Karl Schlögel, 1995: "We move from one knot to another and never finish the tapestry. Our only criterion is the strength of the fabric and the pattern that forms from a thousand knots. The historian's work consists of connecting severed threads and rebuilding individual trajectories, connections between persons and chains of events. Our work becomes meaningful if we succeed in exposing what has thus far remained hidden."

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Ilya Ehrenburg on old houses in Paris (1926)

"Young architects are unhappy: the capital city is a warren of mole's burrows. It is 1926, after all, and even though the crackling of the…
Walter Benjamin on history and progress (1940)

https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/CONCEPT2.html "A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from…
Genova impressions-4

"Instead of altering the landscape for the construction of their houses, the Genovese respect the natural terrain and adapt their houses to…

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Historian's work

Posts from This Journal “quote” Tag

Ilya Ehrenburg on old houses in Paris (1926)

Walter Benjamin on history and progress (1940)

Genova impressions-4

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