Harvey, K. L. orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-6710 (2016) Envisioning the Past: Art, Historiography and Public History. Cultural and Social History, 12 (4). pp. 527-543. ISSN 1478-0038
Abstract
This essay considers the role that art and history might play together in public history projects. It discusses public history not in terms of ‘learning lessons’, ‘public debate’ and ‘transferable skills’ but instead in terms of creative thinking in the public sphere. The essay draws upon the author’s experiences of working with artists on a series of exhibitions themed around the history of an arts centre’s late Georgian and Victorian buildings and their inhabitants in Sheffield. It explores the synergies between artistic and historical ways of knowing and argues that collaborations with artists provide an opportunity for academic historians to reengage the imaginative aspects of professional academic history. It also explores the value of art’s expressive power and its potential to pose new questions and suggest new answers for both public and historians’ understanding of the past.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Cultural and Social History. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | public history; public engagement; impact; art; artists; eighteenth century; exhibitions |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2017 08:44 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2017 09:19 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2015.1088257 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14780038.2015.1088257 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:113100 |