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In the great days of the BBC's "Timewatch", revisionism was the fashion and historical mythbusters made viewers challenge their image of their past.
Contemporary paintings, multimedia works, performances on video, and collage are placed in conversation with historical works, providing viewers with a reference point to understand the visual language from which many contemporary Tibetan artists draw inspiration.
This haste was rather forced on the story because the centrepiece of the episode was to be the trial of Bates the valet, on charges of uxoricide, and, though the series has not always been a stickler for historical accuracy, most viewers would have known that the courts knock off over the holidays.
We've all encountered art that demanded much of its viewer - historical knowledge, intellectual rigor, even pathos - but Hoeber's Demon Hill imbeds its conceptual gravitas in a playful, physical challenge.
The "mobile journeys" will guide viewers through historical journeys around areas featured in the BBC2 programme.
"Tarquinius and Lucretia," painted around 1580, may prompt much art historical discourse, but to viewers not gripped by learned considerations, it is inept.
Stoneman conceded that the filmmakers' cinéma vérité approach meant that for wider historical and political context, viewers should look elsewhere.
The gruesome tale seems fitting material for Tarantino, who, with films like "Django Unchained" and "Inglourious Basterds," remixes traumatic historical events to give viewers the juicy vengeance plot and narrative resolution they so intensely crave.
Allport's photographs predate the changes, but the museum center wanted to exhibit them, along with written explanations of the current political situation, to give viewers a historical context to "understand what the conditions were like, what the problems were and the progress that still needs to be made," said Lynn La Bate, museum center curator.
