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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 Domestic Architecture of Pirna: A Memory Etched in Stone

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  Author- Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                              Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. There are towns in which time seems to lie dormant, as if the centuries, rather than extinguishing one another, had taken to nesting together like drowsy birds along the eaves of the same roofline. Pirna is one of these. Approached from the Elbe or discovered by way of a quiet railway journey that winds through Saxon valleys , its old town opens like a fresco partially hidden beneath a veil of mist and river fog—one that, when cleared, reveals not a dream of history, but the persistence of it. In Pirna, domestic architecture performs an act of memory more faithful than any archive. These houses—many of them four, even five centuries o...