Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Alt-Right Sends Death Threats To Scholar For Article On Ancient Greek Statuary (To This We've Come)

Historian Sarah E. Bond wrote an essay reminding us, as others have before, that a great deal of Greek and Roman sculpture was not intended to be seen as milky-white marble - it was painted. As Bond puts it, the alt-right "viewed the piece as 'liberal professor says that all white statues are racist.'"



Article source here:Arts Journal

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