Facing History: Portraits in the Visual Arts Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague
Facing History: Portraits in the Visual Arts Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Summary/Abstract: Does the past have a face? No doubt. One way to conceive it is as a succession of moments that become embedded in the consciousness and unconscious of each one of us, generally in an individualized way. By nature it is a protean and complex face, very personal and different for everyone, hardly reducible to a universal gallery of ‘icons’ à la pantheons of famous persons. In this sense, it is not a singular past, but a multitude of pasts, millions, if not billions, retained in the reservoirs of living memory, not an immutable imprint but one that is constantly transforming along with the vicissitudes of individual experience, the flux of emotions, perceptions, and moods.

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