#orientalism

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Luis Ricardo Falero (1877)

[icedsodapop]

I really envy White historians on social media who could talk about historical events that were insidiously racist with this aggravatingly chipper voice in their American/British accents. Like, I get being excited about learning about history, but it's as if they don't seem to realize that what they had just described was racist? For example:

I just cannot fathom how this lady could describe the Knightsbridge Japanese Village as an "amazing" place when it's nothing more than a glorified human zoo that existed in London. You should be glad it doesn't exist anymore?! And you had people in the comments going on about how this sounded like a nice idea?? No???

Here's more information about this Village and British media reception towards it at the time:

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[itznarcotic]

[emptyportrait]

it's almost like global south's reality is some sort of aesthetic concept for white people.

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

[beatricecenci]

Francesc Masriera i Manovens (Spanish, 1842-1902)

Salomé

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895) "Juive de Tanger" ("Jewish woman from Tangier") (1874) Oil on panel Orientalism Currently in a private collection

[artystyczny-nieporzadek]

(details) The Sheik's Daughter Eduard Sack (German, born in 1857)

[pintoras]

Jenny Nyström (Swedish, 1854-1946): Couple under a parasol (via Bukowskis)

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Hollywood loves Arab cultures but not Arab people

[lionofchaeronea]

African Holding a Horse at the Edge of a Sea, Alfred de Dreux (1810-1860)

[balkanparamo]

Orientalism

[die-rosastrasse]

Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas

French, 1854-1925

Salome, 1890 (detail)

[beatricecenci]

John Frederick Lewis (English, 1804-1876)

A Young Turkish Woman