STEPHEN WISEBAUER
On exhibit: JULY 9 - JULY 21
Artist Reception: Friday, July 12 from 4 - 6 P
HISTORIES: Provincetown
by Stephen Wisbauer
“In the same century in which the legions were withdrawn from Britain, Procopius, the foremost historian of the Eastern Roman Empire, was born. Yet in that century of dissolution most of what the ancient world had learned of the coasts and waters of the Atlantic was forgotten. The western ocean had been a domain over which mists of ignorance and superstition hovered, sometimes rising for a moment of distant vision, sometimes falling like a blank curtain. In the sixth century A.D. they drew so closely to the shores of Europe that even England was lost behind them. It had ceased to be a Roman province and was become a land of ghosts.”
Firestone, C. B. (1924). The Coasts of Illusion (1st ed., p. 265-256). Harper &Brothers
