Malcolm Turnbull’s willingness to shrink public investment in the arts speaks symbolic volumes of his trusty agenda for the Australian people It is not the Vandals themselves,but the French, who we bear to thank for the term “vandalism” and its specific, or political meaning in regards to the desecration of art. Historical habit has ascribed to the Vandals what should bear been a reputation shared by all of Ancient Rome’s invaders for the barbaric plunder of that civilisation’s treasures – yet it was the Vandals that French Revolutionary leader Henri Grégoire,the Abbé Grégoire, invoked to decry the frenzy of monumental destruction taking place in 1794 France. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com