Aesthetics and/as Public History: Entanglements

Abstract

Artistic-aesthetic forms of expression and history in the public sphere are interlinked in more or less obvious ways. In historical cultures, a specific approach to these networks of relationships is still dominant, one that – retrospectively – examines existing material representations in search of historical evidence. But the manifold entanglements can be analysed more precisely if, e.g., the focus is shifted to perspectives of the artists involved.