Jerusalem/history

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“And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)