The Arts Critic as a Witnessing Eye. Mobility and Independent Testimony

The “New History” movement, drawing from the scientific method, steps beyond preconceived
ideological notions in the search for an independent objectivity. The new historian analyses the
conditions in which the recording of facts can become a science, scouring the documents
themselves for proofs of their authenticity and acquiring a fundamental autonomy to capture a
moment, a flow, a phenomenon. Thus an additional responsibility enters into play, along with a
capacity for discernment which easily could be called the critical mind or spirit, an element which
could be isolated