Reblogged from A Subjective Discipline:

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Thinking a lot about the production and depiction of space.  Having done some preliminary reading, I am struck by the idea of an artwork producing space (what sort of space?).  This 1660 painting of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, by Emanuel de Witte, depicts a "real imaginary" space and introduces ahistorical elements designed to stimulate thought and discussion of contemporary issues of recent history and religious politics - maybe even to make a subversive statement:

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