"The new fashions also must be disseminated, or else in the summer the beautiful girls will not know who they are."
Siegfried Kracauer, "Photography", The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 57.
The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
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