If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison Quotes
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
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| Birth: | 2nd June, 1943 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Historian |
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Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison is a British cultural historian. He was educated at Bedford School, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1965, MA in 1970, MLitt in 1972, and DLitt in 1989.
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