Ellen Gallagher Quotes
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
Gallagher, Ellen. "Ellen Gallagher in 'Play'." Art in the Twenty-First Century, season 3, PBS, 2005.
He and Thomas Jefferson were the two most vocal propononents of this view amongst the Founding Fathers.
Most historians and politicians believe the reverse to be true and that is WHY history should be studied. For them, history is a means to an end. For Taylor’s point of view, it is the end.
Actually, most extreme conservatives do live in different centuries at the same time. One is the century in which they are living physically. The second is an earlier one—the century from which his ideology stems. Likewise, most liberal reformers and revolutionists also live in two centuries. The first is the one in which they live physically. The second is in the future where their hopes, dreams, and reforms lie.
The past history of Europe had developed so much hate and enmity among the different nations that they were all loaded down with the past and to move forward he argued that the past must be forgotten. However it was not, and Germany most of all harbored resentments which erupted a decade later with Hitler, the Nazis and WWII.
Ellen Gallagher is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video. Some of her pieces refer to issues of race, and may combine formality with racial stereotypes and depict "ordering principles" society imposes.
