3 / History and Memory

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Art has been a medium through which people have not only documented, but also shaped history—both past and future. Periodically, individuals, groups, and societies have also drawn on or appropriated artistic forms of the past to make statements in and about the present. Art can commemorate existence, achievements, and failures, and it can be used to record and create communal as well as personal memories.

artwork

Lienzo of IhuitlanMexican School, Oaxaca	Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his SonsJacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)		Memory Board (lukasa)Luba artist, Democratic Republic of the Congo
	The Railroad Stations Were at Times So Over-Packed with People Leaving that Special Guards Had to Be Called in to Keep Order from the Migration SeriesJacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000)	Surrender of BredaDiego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
“Many fall in battle and King Harold is killed” (detail) from the Bayeux TapestryUnknown artist(s), France or England	“Alexander Fights the Monster of Habash” from the ShahnamaUnknown artist, Tabriz, Iran		“Battle of Lanka, between Rama and Ravana, King of the Rakshasas” from the RamayanaRajasthani School, India
	Column of Trajan Roman artist(s)	Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, head chief, Blood TribeGeorge Catlin (American, 1796–1872)
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of EuropePeter Eisenman (American, b. 1932)	American Marines Raising American Flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo JimaRosenthal, Joe (American, 1911–2006)		Mulackstrasse 37, Berlin from The Writing on the Wall, Projections in Berlin’s Jewish QuarterShimon Attie (American, b. 1957)
	Untitled, page number 21, from the Arrow’s Elk Society LedgerArrow (Elk Society), Cheyenne (active 19th century), Central Plains	Racing Clocks Run Slow: Archaeology of a RacetrackShimon Attie (American, b. 1957)
The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian IAlbrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) and others	The Triumph of Juliers from the Marie de’ Medici CyclePeter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)