transhistorical
adjective
trans·his·tor·i·cal
ˌtran(t)s-(h)i-ˈstȯr-i-kəl 
ˌtranz-,
-ˈstär-
: transcending historical bounds
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These frameworks are further brought into direct contact in both productive and critical ways through the rearranging, remixing, and reordering of transcultural and transhistorical visual idioms, as in Lauren Halsey’s utopian-inspired architectural artwork keepers of the krown, 2024.
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Sara Raza, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
McCloskey’s insistence that people should evaluate situations in transhistorical terms rather than protest the inequities of their own time and place proceeds from a wrongheaded conception of freedom that excises us from our contexts.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
The twenty-one oil paintings, most of them large format—roughly four and a half by four feet, or larger—use contemporary pop-culture references, allusions to art history and literature, and images of Brooks’s friends and social-media acquaintances to create a kind of transhistorical community.
—Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
Not for the shallow motive of transhistorical blame, much less to induce personal comfort or discomfort, but rather in the service of truth.
—Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
More generally, if history is one long catastrophe returning in new guises, the work of historical reckoning can pass into a transhistorical fatalism.
—Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
The result is that in Portrait attraction between women is a force loose in the world, circulating unpredictably among us, with the same claims to transhistorical ubiquity that romances have long made for attraction between men and women.
—Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
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Sara Raza, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
McCloskey’s insistence that people should evaluate situations in transhistorical terms rather than protest the inequities of their own time and place proceeds from a wrongheaded conception of freedom that excises us from our contexts.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
The twenty-one oil paintings, most of them large format—roughly four and a half by four feet, or larger—use contemporary pop-culture references, allusions to art history and literature, and images of Brooks’s friends and social-media acquaintances to create a kind of transhistorical community.
—Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
Not for the shallow motive of transhistorical blame, much less to induce personal comfort or discomfort, but rather in the service of truth.
—Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
More generally, if history is one long catastrophe returning in new guises, the work of historical reckoning can pass into a transhistorical fatalism.
—Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
The result is that in Portrait attraction between women is a force loose in the world, circulating unpredictably among us, with the same claims to transhistorical ubiquity that romances have long made for attraction between men and women.
—Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
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“Transhistorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transhistorical. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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