The Strength to Dream
How Remnants of the Past Illustrate a Legacy of The Representation of Vision
by John D'Agostino
In a five part essay on the importance of vision, The Strength to Dream re-examines the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, J.M.W. Turner, William Blake, Wassily Kandinsky and Mark Rothko to see how history informs the present imagination.
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This paper was published in the Summer of 2010 in Artforum's Art&Education Papers Archive, a new global platform for sharing, distributing and archiving important research and knowledge in the field of contemporary art production, criticism, and history.
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