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historic present

The use of the present tense to describe an event from the past.



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The trick is further nuanced by the fact that it is only by virtue of the most up-to-date video equipment (small projectors mounted on the walls) that this distant historical present seems to come alive.
In addition to his many books on philosophy, he has published a number of collections of art-critical writings, including Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
DANTO, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, art critic for The Nation, and a contributing editor of Artforum, has published a number of books on philosophy and collections of his art-critical writings, including Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
 
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