That history has been diffusing through the culture ever since, gathering additional details along the way and profoundly shaping our image of the Underground Railroad.
The Great Pyramid and sphinx at Giza, the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel have shaped our image of the monumental pharaonic culture and its mysterious god-kings.
ARTIST'S EASEL about George Grosz... Looking through Yale University Press's well-appointed catalogue for "The Berlin of George Grosz," a recent exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts, one is struck again by how completely Grosz shaped our image of Berlin between the wars.
By Art Spiegelman and George Grosz The New Yorker, August 25 , 1997P. 128 ARTIST'S EASEL about George Grosz... Looking through Yale University Press's well-appointed catalogue for "The Berlin of George Grosz," a recent exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts, one is struck again by how completely Grosz shaped our image of Berlin between the wars.
The New Yorker, August 25 , 1997P. 128 ARTIST'S EASEL about George Grosz... Looking through Yale University Press's well-appointed catalogue for "The Berlin of George Grosz," a recent exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts, one is struck again by how completely Grosz shaped our image of Berlin between the wars.
One of the most destructive outcomes of this trend is how this overblown coverage of crazies shapes our image of one another.
Just as a skilled drag queen reminds us of the artifice that shapes our images of femininity, women portraying macho men highlight what's grotesque and confining in traditionally masculine postures.
It's amazing how that war, and writers like Sassoon, Graves and David Jones [In Parenthesis], have shaped our image and understanding of war.
The Victorians created images in the shape of their arguments; we create our arguments in the shape of our images.
It shapes our increasingly fuzzy image of the jazz age and fuels endless term papers on the American dream and related topics.
