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Virginia E. Papaioannou, associate professor of pathology at Tufts Medical School and wife of Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences Simon M. Schama, would not confirm the offer yesterday. But a senior Harvard official said the University has known of the offer from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons since early summer...
...Schama did not return phone calls yesterday and Monday. He told the New York Observer this week that it was a "possibility" that he would go to Columbia's history department...
...There can be no art without history and no history without art," Schama concluded...
Finally, Professor of History Simon M. Schama addressed the integral relationship between history and art and the necessity of "an exploration of the culture that produced the work...
...then come to imagine that all works of art carry sociopolitical messages the way brown bags carry sandwiches: open the flap and there they are. When one reads a cultural historian like Simon Schama reflecting on the art and society of 17th century Holland, one sees what deep access a contextual approach can give to culture. But this is a very far cry from the ritual indictments of the past on the grounds of racism, sexism, greed and so forth that increasingly substitute for thought among our academics. Lo, the Native American! See, he is depicted as dying! And note...