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Jiang describes the Alexandrian museum as the root of the English word and as the world's first research university.
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museum
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Jiang presents art as a common social force for self-reflection, saying museums, music, films, and the artwork inside Purgatory can all expose a person to themselves.
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Jiang affirms the felt aliveness of the Mona Lisa as the key phenomenon, even though the practical conditions of looking at the real painting are often crowded and imperfect.
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Jiang describes the museum at Alexandria as the world's first research university, where Greek scholars continued Aristotle's work by standardizing and systemizing Greek culture for imposition in Egypt.
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"...make sense to you when you when you go to a museum and you see all these paintings when you hear great music when..."
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"It's like she's alive. Right. Sorry. Did you, your experience with the Mona Lisa. Can you talk about it?"
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"It's really you know really hard to actually look carefully at the Mona Lisa because there are so many people just you know standing..."
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"...was he started to sponsor something called, we call today the museum. Okay? The museum is the root of the English word museum. But..."
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"...So when I went to Florence and to one of the museums there, I went with a friend and I just thought, when I..."
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"Like. Sometime. In. An. Museum. I. Can. Experience. Kind. Of. Transcendental. And. Mysterious. Aesthetic. Experience. Yeah."
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"...looks kind of masculine. So, I've been to like those art museums where they have like medieval galleries, and I think that the women..."
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"...And, you know, on the first day, went to the Hotspot Museum in Jerusalem. I'm not sure if you've been there. But it is..."
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"of the most memorable experiences along with the the Holocaust Museum so regardless of how we feel about Israel they have a really great..."
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"...way that we talk about when you go to an archaeology museum, ancient civilizations, and all we hear about is they had some belief..."
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"...most of his works in a British library, in the British Museum. So why did the British authorities allow him to do that? That's..."
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