ABSTRACT
Place matters. In the creation of artistic and cultural works, where you are, and at what time period, will have a constitutive effect on the kind of work you produce. Think of impressionist Paris, for example, or New York modernism, or fin-de-siècle Vienna. Especially during times of turmoil in social, economic, or political life, there are opportunities for a radically altered art. Such art is both a reflection of changing contexts but also an act of re-creation: it is an interpretive strategy and an opportunity to reimagine, even transcend, the future.
