And again, it manifests in so many ways, but I think the idea of addressing history, or being informed by history, is a thread that you really see from artists coming out of this region.
Most people are poorly informed about history and do take history-based films to represent what did happen.
With all three paintings, Welch seems to be saying that all things bear a weighted materiality that is informed by histories, and these histories distort the meaning of identity and the information one encounters.
The perhaps unintentional yet no less ironically humorous moments when an image or pronouncement sound more like a blockbuster movie starring Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger than an 11th-century chronicle in fact indicate how Hollywood is informed by history.
"Leno is clearly well informed on history," she says, "which I certainly am not.
The world of his characters was unsettled and difficult, informed by history, and pervaded by an overwhelming sense of loss.
Much of Foucault's writing is not so much philosophy as it is philosophically informed intellectual history.
Does anyone seriously doubt that British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been more successful if it had been better informed by history?
