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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...

The Light Between Worlds: A Story of A Boy, Albert Namatjira and a Saxon Evangelist.

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Author: Brian Hawkeswood.                                                   "  Scrollen Sie nach unten, um den Text auf Deutsch zu lesen.”              Prologue: A Certain Shade of Purple I was a boy of ten, and though I knew, in some inarticulate corner of my awareness, that I existed like others—was dressed and fed, reprimanded and kissed—I rarely spoke. Words seemed to gather themselves like leaves in the wind, always just out of reach, scattered across the page, inverted, misaligned, or transposed, and though I could feel the pressure of meaning just beneath the surface of every sentence I attempted to read, it would dissipate the moment I reached for it, like breath on glass. Dyslexia, of course, had not yet reached the fashionable tongues of specialists, and so I was simply a quiet child, one of those boys whom teache...