LINKTV Democracy Now May 5, 2015
100 years have passed since an evening in london when a curious audience gathered to hear a lecture by James Mcneill whistler. [clock ticking] he began by saying that the artist stands in no relation to the moment at which he occurs. He is no more a product of his time than is a scientific truth newly asserted. The assertion requires man to make it but the truth itself exists independently. [clock strikes] James Mcneill whistler arrived in paris on november 3, 1855 resolved to be an artist having left america never to return. He was 21. His mother hoped he would follow a career at west point, ...
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