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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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Shifting Shadows: The Transformation of the Image Across Media.

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By Author  Brian Hawkeswood                                                           Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. As an artist, I have long been intrigued by the strange metamorphosis that occurs each time an image is passed through a new medium. With the sole exception of the “ screenshot ”—an attempt at static preservation within the same glowing realm of the screen—images never remain the same. They shift subtly or dramatically with every translation. A photograph of a photograph yields a ghost of the original. A photocopy introduces new grains, contrast, distortion. Even the most precise art reproduction in a museum catalogue brings a foreign color balance, a shift in scale, or the flattening of what was once palpably textured. Edgar Degas Six Friends at Dieppe, 1885 RISD Museum This phenomenon—mundane and ines...
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