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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 Woke Aesthetic and the Death of Form.

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  Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                    Scrollen Sie nach unten für die deutsche Version Last evening, Pirna —whose quiet streets by day seem to cradle a half-forgotten poetry of Saxon domesticity —unveiled itself under the banner of what was called Einkaufsnacht , a night of shopping. Shopping has never been for me an amusement, but always a chore, and yet the occasion drew me into the streets with a certain curiosity, as though beneath the pretext of commerce there might unfold one of those accidental spectacles of life which history, art, and chance conspire to produce. What I found was not the glow of merchandise but the quiet triumph of form: the old cars, lovingly preserved and polished, that appeared scattered through the squares and narrow streets. Th...