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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.         ...
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The Quiet Power of Corot: A Small Painting That Spoke Volumes

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Author- Brian Hawkeswood                                                              Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung The Quiet Power of Corot: A Small Painting That Spoke Volumes It was a time when I found myself in a national gallery. Do not ask me which one, for my life has led me wandering into hundreds of them, those great treasure houses where the art of centuries accumulates like the sediment of history, layers of memory and labour compacted into form, colour, and line. Depositories of culture, of stories, of the hard work of artists who had striven not only to represent the world but also to elevate it.                                                       Corot " The Bridge ...
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