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The annual rites of Oscar are nigh (Sunday, March 10), in case you hadn’t noticed and given the sharply declining trend of the show’s ratings over the past decade, you probably hadn’t. Once a momentous occasion of national mind-melding of near-Super Bowl proportions, this increasingly tedious exercise in tacky self-aggrandizement and PC hectoring from gazillionaire celebrities ....
Whatever we mean by historicism, at the very least it means that the conditions in which a work was made play a role in interpreting the work.1 In this sense, art criticism is always historicist. And because there is no other option, saying “always” before it is always useless. ....
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